Exhibition - Nexus

Featuring:
Martha Russo
Robert Mellor
Melanie Walker
Heather Patterson
Angie Piehl
Sabin Aell

Through ceramic sculpture, installation, painting, collage, and photography, six visionary artists transform their unique perceptions of the world into compelling visual narratives. NEXUS unveils the fusion of textures, patterns, and surfaces that connect our urban and natural landscapes. Each artist uniquely navigates the delicate balance between individual experience and universal connection, inviting viewers to explore their own relationships with these intertwined environments. This exhibition reveals the hidden links between the constructed and the organic, inspiring us to see the world in a new light.

In a colorful array of ceramic organisms, MARTHA RUSSO presents the installation shibumi, named after the Japanese aesthetic that explores the intangible sense of touch, timing, and ease through practice and patience. Otherworldly microcosms are explored through texture, form, and color, inviting the viewer to discover the line between the elegant and rough, spontaneous and restrained, in hopes of coming to an unobtrusive beauty.

ROBERT MELLOR’s paintings can be viewed as new propositions for visual enactment by the viewer, each work providing cues for engaging with the composition, layer by layer, line by line, color by color. While it can be said that any work of art comes alive as art by a viewer’s active engagement, Mellor foregrounds this relationship by composing works of arresting beauty that compel viewers to re-enact the process of composition with the artist.

Impermanence, fragility and the ethereal are at the core of MELANIE WALKER’s practice. Constantly pushing the confines of photography, Walker takes us through her dreams in this series. Seeking a space of shelter, comfort, and stability, these photographs printed on metal are a part of a manifestation finding common ground.

Focusing on mapping the natural landscape, HEATHER PATTERSON’s work explores recurring patterns in nature through her carefully curated mark making and expressive colors. Patterson’s abstract forms depict everything from weather systems, aerial views of landscapes, to animal migration patterns, lichen on boulders, or even cellular structures. A sense of micro vs. macro begins to unveil itself in her mixed media paintings, presenting an opportunity for reflection and a deeper appreciation for the fragile world we inhabit.

In this new series of collage-based prints, ANGIE PIEHL evokes a range of possibilities - the depicted spherical spaces hover like planets, or alternately, mimic microscopic views held within the ecosystem of a petri dish. Piehl intermingles a regenerative stew of visual information, offering potential clues about our relationships to nature, culture, and our place within the larger world we inhabit.

Interested in the combination of unlikely textures and materials, SABIN AELL explores space and light in her mixed media installations. Part mural, part 2D work, this work seeks to connect consciously to our collective pool of minds, letting the energetic information (questions and answers) flow into the creation.

Location: Prado building on 11th Avenue and Cherokee Street (entrance on Cherokee)

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