Life Forms Gather

November 23, 2024 - January 11, 2025

Opening reception: November 23, 2024 from 5-7PM

Life Forms is a sculpture collective of twelve artists and an experiment in artistic community building. Through a series of exhibitions over four years (2023-2027), each in a different location and featuring a different subset of artists, the group aims to deepen relationships with each other, discover new connections through their creative work, and share in conversation with the public. Participating artists include Jackie Brown, Lynn Duryea, Kazumi Hoshino, Leah Gauthier, Elaine K. Ng, Bronwen O’Wril, Ashley Page, Veronica Perez, Celeste Roberge, Naomi David Russo, Ling-Wen Tsai, and Erin Woodbrey.

Themes of our individual inquiries include, climate change and interconnectivity, the vulnerability, grace, and complexities of the Black experience, physical and psychological structures of site, the potential of our material environment to hold meaning, the blurring of the real and imagined. Each of the artists in Life Forms are growing new ideas, bending expectations, and will be encouraging themselves and their audiences to question assumptions and make fresh associations. Life Forms Gather, the first exhibition, featuring art from all twelve artists, will be held at Speedwell Contemporary from November 23, 2024 - January 11, 2025.