Life Forms: Gather

Jackie Brown explores how traditional materials like clay can be used in new and unexpected ways through emerging technology. Her iterative sculpture and installation work invites reverence for the natural world and is fueled by an interest in gradual processes of accumulation and erosion.

Lynn Duryea’s sculptural work is inspired by and makes reference to objects ranging from abstractions of letters of the alphabet, tools and implements to large-scale industrial and architectural forms. Although clay is her primary focus, multiple materials are utilized to construct minimalist sculptures in a variety of scales.

Leah Gauthier is an intermedia artist who makes wild inspired embroidered paintings, living sculpture, and often edible community works exploring resilience in the wake of climate change, food migration, and her dreams of an interspecies centered future.

Kazumi Hoshino cares about identity, environment, memory, repetition, process, and perception of the physical experience. She uses elemental materials that identify the origin and character of her work which visualizes a conversation between the internal and the outer physical perception, exploring the gap between the ideal and the physical material in the natural world.

Known for material investigation and process-based practices, Elaine K. Ng explores human relationships to place and how we form knowledge, collectively and personally. Informed by a bilingual upbringing, Ng incorporates notions of translation throughout her work, materially, literally, and metaphorically.

Bronwen O’Wril makes sculpture as a way of contending with the temporary nature of life. 

Using repetition as her primary studio practice – along with wood and textiles as primary materials – Bronwen investigates cycles of composition and decay, stillness and movement, attachment and rupture. 

Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, Ashley Page’s sculptural practice is a vessel for visibility into human stories and history. Centering the African American experience, Page presents these stories as universal. Merging textile techniques with spatial sensibilities, her work is often a metaphor for the body, a vessel for spirit, or a container for ephemera.

Verónica Pérez is a sculptor whose work unites history, identity, and community collaboration to address erasure and foster interdependence. Deeply influenced by her father Miguel’s experience in the Puerto Rican diaspora, Pérez uses hair and textiles to symbolically explore the effects of colonization, white supremacy, forced sterilization, and displacement. Crafted from dark materials, these sculptures have a powerful yet nurturing presence, inviting viewers to feel the love and resilience within. Pérez’s art, grounded in honoring ancestors and fostering connection, becomes a catalyst for reflecting on socio-political issues and envisioning systemic change.

The ocean has been a near-constant presence in Celeste Roberge’s life and art work. Now, with climate change and rising seas, seaweed has become the life force and raw material that she engages in the creation of survival gear to adapt our lives symbolically to new conditions that require resilience.

Naomi David Russo is a woodworker who makes furniture and sculpture. Her studio practice explores repetitive woodworking techniques, and utilizes these processes in unconventional ways throughout her work. Naomi is inspired by remembered structures in her childhood and how a body moves within these settings. The shapes and forms within these memories are the foundation of the pieces she creates.

Ling-Wen Tsai’s practice spans across a broad range of material, spatial, and conceptual  approaches. While embracing different disciplines, Tsai’s work extends beyond the confines of categorization. Her recent projects explore how our surroundings, whether natural or built, have a profound impact on our state of mind and shape our lives.

Imagined as objects that one may find in a museum of a future-past, Erin Woodbrey's work weaves together science, mythology, and the material cultures of prehistory and the present. Often using found objects, homegrown, and salvage materials, Woodbrey asks essential questions about how everyday objects accumulate and permeate landscapes, the body, and living systems.