Allison Baker 

“The work is a fever dream against a deep longing for a fantasy life. It echoes the cognitive dissonance between the realities and tumult within American homes teetering between layers of attraction and revulsion, desire and desperation. My work achieves a surreal sensation because it exists within the liminal space of recognition and discombobulation. I appropriate real objects that are  neutered of all utility, devoid of use and ability, and simply –or hostile– asserting its “unuse.” Their grotesque scales and textures are amplified by our understanding of a potential.”

Josh Gumiela

“When things like this happen the brain keeps swelling, swelling, swelling and the headache becomes an advertisement for manufactured dust delivered in a bag-for-life. The pressure to consume and provide pursues you like the sound of your breath. 

These are fragments. This is where it goes in and this is where it comes out. It cannot be reversed. Understand now? 

When things like this happen you understand the oscillating boundaries between a memorial, the things you will always remember, and the things you cannot forget.”

Richard Pelster-Wiebe

"Things are changing; things are starting to spin, snap, fly off into the blue sleeve of the long afternoon. 'Oh' and 'ooh' come whistling out of the perished mouth of the grass, as things turn soft, boil back into substance and hue. As everything, forgetting its own enchantment, whispers: I too love oblivion..." (Mary Oliver, 1979)

John-Mark Schlink

“My work reflects an interest in architectural form, modernist design and concepts of perspective, realized through printmaking and drawing media. Inspired by mid-century brutalist buildings, the imagery in my prints explores dislocation of place, time, and memory (forgetting); these concepts are emblematic in modern architecture and manifest in a context of  “universality.” I use fragmentation, repetition and reconfiguration of forms to emphasize materiality as a framework for my compositions. Questions that I think about in my work are “how do I relate to this type of architecture in this current moment,” and  “how do I reinterpret these ideas and structures through printmaking and drawing media?”

Calee Cecconi

“At the crux of my work is my desire to find and strengthen connections between people and the world around them. I aim to bring visibility to the otherwise overlooked or unseen. This work focuses on glimmers, which are the opposite of triggers in polyvagal psychology. Glimmers are everyday objects, interactions, or sensations that can ground people who have experienced trauma. Glimmers are unique to each person. Manifesting glimmers requires introspection and potentially intense, guided work through layers of darkness.”