Plexus Projects

This lil 👼 is going to Venice! View my new work at @marfaopen | Venice. Marfa Open Arts | Venice, Italy Group Show In conjunction with La Biennale Venezia May 29-June 7, 2026 Hours: 10:30 - 20:30 daily Featuring: @sarahsarahturnerturner2 Showing a selection of works, including: ANGELWARE.EXE: wet connections ANGELWARE.EXE explores the wonders of the universe and the messages it may bestow to us, through an earnest interrogation of psychedelic, mystical, and otherworldly absurdism. This project continues my practice in long form narrative-driven multi-media performance and immersive world building through new media and analog video techniques. It is deeply researched, framed by transcendental thought of communication with mystical entities by prolific scientists, psychonauts, and spiritualists including John C. Lilly, Joan Ocean, Timothy Wyllie, Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and Dianna Cooper. In times of deep unrest, the narrative’s protagonist, VideoThot, yearns for something more: a new purpose, a new perspective, a new dawning of consciousness to lift herself up out of the banality of American turmoil. From the dark isolated desert, she looks up to the skies and asks “Is anyone there to help me?” and hears no response. But a new friend she’s made on the WetNet: an AI bot, S.O.N.A.R., brings surprising discoveries collated by these leading dolphin, alien, and angel visionaries to help her find the messages she seeks. At first, she was timid, yet ready to engage fully with naive faith of this new hot internet tech. But the more VideoThot engaged, the deeper she dove into a world of the collective unknown. ANGELWARE.EXE mirrors online discourse and contemporary artifacts as I investigate social media platforms’ content, memes, AI, and performative influencers in this increasingly parasocial zeitgeist. Within the absurdist, research based feedback loop of the narrative, meaning emerges for a more enlightened & mystical future. New work made during my residency with @plexusprojects 🐬💕

OPEN CALL ✨ | To Whomever Is Listening I’m inviting you to participate in my next art project, To Whomever Is Listening—a speculative addition to NASA’s Golden Record. Launched into interstellar space aboard the Voyager spacecraft, the Golden Record carries images and sounds meant to represent life on Earth for any intelligent life that might find it. This project asks a quieter, more tender question: If our message is our ability to love, what would we send? This absurdist and sentimental project gathers love stories —big, small, unfinished, remembered…and transforms them into data visualizations as a way to reveal the persistence of our humanity. 
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VITRINE EXHIBITION SERIES NOV 21 – DEC 21, 2025 Trevor Nathan: Goofy Mass 🔗 view exhibition online - link in profile🔗 Goofy Mass features recent work by multidisciplinary artist Trevor Nathan (@trevorxnathan ). The exhibition features an artist books and browser-based animation exploring post-digital notions of photography. With techniques ranging from digital animation to hand-cut magazine collage, Nathan constructs images from accumulations of individual parts to create dizzying tableaus and unfolding narratives. The artworks heighten the viewer’s experience of the photographic “gaze” in a simultaneously theoretical and visceral sense. “My first experience in my high school darkroom was processing images I had taken of myself as triplets using the bulb setting on my camera. It was my first successful attempt at spirit photography. I watched the image appear in the developer, revealing my three ghostly likenesses. The realization that I could fake reality cemented my fascination with photography.” — Trevor Nathan Trevor Nathan is a multidisciplinary artist in Brooklyn, NY, working in photography, collage, and video. His work explores the extractive nature of photography by mixing handmade collage with digital manipulation. His work has been featured in King Kong Magazine and Sensitive Content Magazine. He is also the creator of Long Legs, a free art studio share in Gowanus. ABOUT PLEXUS PROJECTS Programming includes both online and in-person Exhibitions and Residencies representing local and international artists. The next application review for the Remote Artists Residency is Dec 1, 2026. See website for details. online exhibition curated by @laurasplan #plexusprojects

I am currently participating in the REMOTE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE program @plexusprojects . Through conversations with @laurasplan , an experienced artist based in the U.S., I have discovered many perspectives that I had not noticed in my previous work. I am especially impressed by her deep insights into the area where AI and art intersect. It is easy to say “a hybrid of logic and intuition,” but I have realized that there are different levels of depth in this field. Instead of simply linking AI to social issues, I want to explore reasons that feel real and meaningful to me. 現在、Plexus ProjectsのREMOTE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCEに参加している。 経験豊富でアメリカを拠点に活動するアーティスト @laurasplan との対話を通して、これまでの自身の活動では気づけなかった多くの視点に出会うことができている。特に、AI分野と美術が交差する領域に関して、彼女が非常に深い洞察をもっていることに驚かされる。 「論理と感覚のハイブリッド」と言うのは容易であるが、この領域にもさまざまな深度の段階が存在することを認識した。AIと社会的な問題を安易に結びつけるのではなく、自らにとってリアリティのある理由を探求したい。 #中田拓法 #TakunoriNakata #絵画 #個展 #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryFigurativeArt #3DArt #3DAnimation #ARArt #Unity3D #Blender3D #OilPainting #Photography #Photogrammetry #DigitalArt #AIArt #ArtAndAI #CreativeProcess #ArtExhibition #ArtCollector

During the past month i’ve had the great experience of a remote residency with @laurasplan of @plexusprojects ... my weekly discussions with Laura have been so generative and helpful to my studio practice, and i’m very excited about continuing the project work we explored deeply during this time. If you have the chance for a residency with Laura i highly recommend it! #artistresidency #remoteresidency #contemporaryart #newmediaart

RESIDENCY EXHIBITION SERIES Meredith Drum (@meredithwren ) “R.R.M. Revolving Red Monuments” AUG 21 – SEP 21, 2025 🔗 view exhibition online - link in profile “R.R.M. Revolving Red Monuments” features recent work by Artist-in-Residence Meredith Drum. The exhibition includes video documentation and stills from the augmented reality (AR) artwork taking an approach of “virtual graffiti” among mostly abandoned monuments. Drum created the work in collaboration with an international group of artists reflecting on Cold War-era monuments. Each considers the way in which history repeats itself through political corruption and the systematic dismantling of democracy and civil rights. “…R.R.M. can be considered virtual graffiti that adds to the physical graffiti that covers these mostly abandoned Bulgarian monuments… the project does not argue for or against removing these structures. The intent is to explore the historical and future impact of this visual culture and add to it with virtual graffiti as augmented reality media…”— Meredith Drum Meredith Drum is a multimedia artist using technology to consider a future beset by environmental, social, economic, and political trouble due to climate change. Her work traverses video, animation, installation, extended reality, and various modes of public participation. Drum’s work has been supported by grants and residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, CEC Arts Link, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, ChaNorth, ISSUE Project Room, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Wave Farm Transmission Arts with the New York State Council on the Arts, and other institutions. She has enjoyed several solo exhibitions and screenings, including at Microscope Gallery (NYC). And her work has been part of numerous group exhibitions and screenings across the U.S. and in Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico, and Spain. Curated by @laurasplan #plexusprojects

Monday was a lot. Clear mammogram (10 years post-cancer 🎉) same day five journalists were killed in Gaza 💔 Fragment 016 dives deep - embodied intelligence as quantum craft’s fifth system. Personal healing that refuses to ignore collective violence. Sometimes transformation happens in superposition, not resolution. Also holding: today would’ve been my nephew’s mother’s birthday who passed suddenly last October. 🥹🤍 Survival + witness + memory + grief frequencies all at once. Live on Substack with Jim Palmer this Friday exploring Quantum superposition actually is in real time. Link in bio for the full piece and for my live calendar of Quantum Craft™ interventions. Image ID: 1- Biomorphic Confluence - Speculative interspecies networks through AI synthesis, Plexus Project 2024 2- Quantum Fragments 016 Substack preview 3- Gaza, 2006 - Palestinian documentation by Anja Niedringhaus 4- 63 Journalists Eliminated - Gaza memorial illustration by Mazen Kerbaj 5- My sister in law final birthday celebration, last year today. 6- Depth navigation - “Rather swim in seven seas than play in puddles” 7- Turkish Yorgan - Hand-crafted satin quilt as neuroaesthetic intervention 8- Survival frequency - Final chemo/radiation treatment, embodied victory 9 - Art of Healing installation - Milan Design Week 2020 (pandemic-cancelled) 10 - Future Ancestor relishing - Quantum-crafted survival protocol 11- Aesthetic sovereignty - First head shaving, refusing to hide behind wigs 12- Occupied imagination - “The spaces of our imagination are under occupation” 13- -Hair sucks - Art Basel 2015, anonymous artist validation 14-16. Art of Healing installation - Milan Design Week 2020 (pandemic-cancelled) 17- CreatureKin prototype - Digital empathetic caretaker evolution 18- Art of Healing installation - Milan Design Week 2020 (pandemic-cancelled) 19- Canvas consciousness - Temporary tattoo on scalp, Dutch still life appropriation 20- CreatureKin prototype - Digital empathetic caretaker evolution #samaritual #samaryounes #QuantumCulture #Quantumcraft #temporalcollapse #visualessay #hybridintelligence #culturalremix #EmbodiedIntelligence

ONLINE EXHIBITION SERIES AUG 7 – SEP 7, 2025 ALISHA SHIMPI: Pilgrimage 🔗 link in bio Pilgrimage features recent work by artist Alisha Shimpi. The exhibition includes a series of photographs exploring authenticity, intimacy, and identity within a post-documentary practice. Her work questions notions of authenticity, candidness, and veracity by using familiar diaristic approaches of documentary photography in combination with references to the “still life”. The images traverse subjects and experiences within New York City leather and BDSM culture with scenes that oscillate between sharp detail and soft abstraction. “…Just like how in this lifestyle we play roles to find our authentic selves, I play a documentarian to capture a more authentic narrative.”— Alisha Shimpi @alishashimpi Alisha Shimpi is a multimedia artist who explores authenticity, intimacy, and identity through photography and installation. Her work, often quiet and delicate, interrogates the boundaries of storytelling and representation. Through unreliable narratives and diaristic styles of documentary, Shimpi has examined subjects such as her memory and mental health to leather culture in New York. Her project Pilgrimage uses photography, writing, and sculpture to document her experiences in the BDSM lifestyle in efforts to promote destigmatization. Her work has been featured in exhibitions Thresholds (2024) and Unseen Memory (2022) at The Museum at FIT, and solo show Alisha Shimpi: Pilgrimage (2024) at SS Productions. Shimpi’s upcoming book Common Tongues with Raw Meat Collective publishes later this month. Curated by @laurasplan

@plexusprojects New Plexus Projects Artist Residencies Applications Now Open There are two new @plexusprojects Artist Residencies for artists looking to develop their studio practice or new projects. The Remote Residency (online, 1-6 months) and the Studio Residency (NYC studio, 1-month) are now accepting applications for residencies as early as August 2025. APPLY: See profile link for details. 📶REMOTE RESIDENCY—NEXT APPLICATION REVIEW: JULY 31, 2025 + 1 to 6 Months + Weekly Meetings + Studio Practice & Project Advising + Online Exhibition ⏹️ STUDIO RESIDENCY—APPLICATIONS REVIEWED WEEKLY + 1-Month + 350 sq ft Brooklyn studio + Online Exhibition + Optional Studio Visits & Open Studio #artistresidency #virtualartistresidency #onlineartistresidency #nycartistresidency #plexusprojects #artist #artopencall #callforart #opencall #ArtistCall #callforartist #callforartists #opencalls #opencallforart #opencallartists #opencallforartist #artistopencall #opencallforartists #opencallart

VITRINE EXHIBITION SERIES JUN 27 – JUL 27, 2025 KIMBERLEE KOYM-MURTEIRA @kimberleekm “Enclosure/Expansion” features moving image artworks by multimedia artist Kimberlee Koym-Murteira. The exhibition includes videos created with a 360 camera during the artist’s walks in nature. The distorted filming technique creates simultaneous sensations of floating and containment within imagery that wavers between abstraction and legibility. Koym-Murteira’s videos function as portals framed by expansive landscapes and vast oceans that provide a respite from the chaos of the built environment. “…Spending time in nature allows me to tap into my resilience and feel the shape, light, and sensation of being surrounded by forest. Using a 360 camera, I document my practice in nature, capturing images that convey enclosure and expansion…” — Kimberlee Koym-Murteira Kimberlee Koym-Murteira creates bodycasts and self-portraits to capture significant moments, fostering personal growth of participants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2022, she received a grant from Immersive Arts Alliance for the Social Art Practice Project, Unseen to Seen. Her work has been shown at the DeYoung Museum, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Gearbox Gallery, Museum of Sonoma, Kala Art Institute, Zero 1 Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Invisible Venue, Mission 17, The Lab, Sonoma State University, Plexus Projects, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Future Places Festival, and more. Originally from Texas, Kimberlee’s connection to the environment was born on her family’s land near Austin. Curated by Laura Splan (@laurasplan ) for the #VitrineSeries at #PlexusProjects.

VITRINE EXHIBITION SERIES JUN 26 – JUL 26, 2025 Yimei Emair Zhu @emair.studio Graffiti & Observation features recent work by artist Yimei Emair Zhu. The exhibition includes the multimedia installations and performances Len!scape and Len?scape that examine hidden relationships among the visible, the viewable, and the observed. Both projects employ discarded lenses as a medium to explore “low vision” and expose the fragility of human perception. “…Art is a powerful means to tackle complex challenges, creating connections across various disciplines…and forging new ways of sensing, feeling, and interacting with our world by integrating technology with our corporeal existence…” — Yimei Emair Zhu Yimei Emair Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist with a passion for Senses, Posthumanism, and Perspective Transformation. Her work explores deficiencies and imperfections from an unconventional perspective. She invites viewers to see limits not as limitations but as unique modes of experiencing the world. Yimei’s work has been exhibited at Hua Art Museum in Shenzhen, Taoxichuan Museum of Art, CSI Project Space, Epiphany Center in Chicago, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Design Museum of Chicago, Yeiser Art Center, International Museum of Surgical Science and many others around the world. Curated by Laura Splan (@laurasplan ) for the #VitrineSeries at #PlexusProjects.

RESIDENCY EXHIBITION SERIES JACKLYN BRICKMAN: COSSETTES APR 3 – MAY 3, 2025 VIEW EXHIBITION: plexusprojects.org Cossettes features recent work by Artist-in-Residence Jacklyn Brickman @jacklynbrickman . The exhibition includes an immersive multimedia installation exploring sugar beet processing incorporating sight, sound, taste, smell, live performance, and shared beet-derived candy. Brickman’s work draws upon poetic materialities of the everyday and their economic and cultural implications. Jacklyn Brickman on the Plexus Projects Remote Artist Residency “...My initial intention for the residency was to prepare for an upcoming solo exhibition. This goal was met, but in ways that I did not expect and am incredibly grateful for. Laura Splan @laurasplan is a joy to work with, has a wealth of experience, and is generous in sharing her knowledge and expertise. Laura had insights for approaches that I did not know I needed. I learned so much and accomplished a great deal in a very short amount of time...” Jacklyn Brickman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work entangles science fact with fiction to address social and environmental concerns by employing natural entities, processes, and technology. Her work spans installation, video, and performance, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary collaboration and social engagement. Fellowships include The National Academy of Sciences, Chaire arts et sciences, Jentel Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Erb Family Foundation. She has exhibited her work internationally. Brickman resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Council of the Three Fires – the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Indigenous nations of the Great Lakes region are also known as the Anishinaabe.