i wanted to share a show that a couple of my friends and i have been working on for several months now. :)
opening SATURDAY! 3-5PM @a.n.t.i.p.o.d.e
i gaf (matter of fact, i give 2) brings together artists who are building creative lives in a moment defined by instability, burnout, and overlapping global crises. Centering on what it means to pursue a creative career while economic precarity, climate anxiety, political unrest, and digital saturation shape daily experience, the exhibition frames artistic practice not as escape, but as something that happens within this pressure. The works in this show reflect persistence, adaptation, and contradiction, holding ambition and doubt in the same space.
Together, they show how artists continue to imagine futures, develop voices, and commit to long-term creative labor despite the cultural, financial, and ecological instability beneath them. Through their artistic pursuits, they find ground that feels stable and work to make space for others to join them. Like a foundation built on steady ground, each artist has found a source of stability and chosen to share it with others. The exhibition positions artmaking not as a denial of crisis, but as a way of thinking, feeling, and processing it in real time.
So beyond thrilled to have my painting in HIDE AND SEEK opening this Thursday at Railspur Studios during the art walk and SO grateful to be showing alongside these unreal artists. It’s a privilege to be in this mix.
Come out, support, and spend some time with all the incredible work!! ✨
HIDE AND SEEK
12.04.25, 5-9PM
L4 - RAILSPUR STUDIOS
Dana Blume | @danablume760
Drie Chapek | @drie_chapek
Emily Gherard | @emily_gherard Kimberly Trowbridge | @kimberly_trowbridge
Lila Thomas | @soylush
Maria Huang | @mariahuangart
Niki Keenan |@nikishereykeenan Oscar Pearson | @oscarpearson_ Philippe Hyojung Kim | @philippepirrip
Victoria Mackender | @vamackender Yale Wolf | @yalewolf
Music by @wizdumb206
Drinks by @firn_seattle
We heal in the holding
2025
Wire, fabrics, glycerin
In this work, I offer my body as a site of mourning. As a self-portrait and a vessel. Constructed from wire mesh, sheer fabrics, and a cast glycerin form of my face, the figure rests quietly atop a pedestal: part reliquary, part offering. The materials are intentionally unstable, glycerin can sweat, fabric can tear, and mesh can warp. These qualities mirror the instability of memory and the disorienting nature of loss.
The translucent materials echo the fragility of remembrance and the porous boundaries between past and present, life and death, self and other. The glycerin portrait preserves a moment in time, yet always bears the possibility of softening, weeping, and transforming. The form, both skeletal and spectral, suggests a body that is here yet not here.
