Exhibitions
Body / Body / Body offers an intimate counterpoint to an age of control: works that reclaim the body as a site of autonomy, performance, pleasure, and lived experience. With an unconventional use of materials, artists Jamie Isenstein, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sophy Naess reflect upon bodies through the lenses of feminism, humor, and imagination.
Joseph Minek's unconventional, camera-less practice upends traditional photochemical processes, creating vibrant compositions that provoke a conversation about the very nature of photography.
A Duet of
Sacred Geometry
Complementary exhibitions by Grace DeGennaro explore the forms thought to shape humanity's enduring quest for meaning and understanding.
Grace DeGennaro's abstract paintings draw from ancient traditions and natural mathematical sequences to examine the essence of time. Through harmonious compositions and a slow, intentional process, DeGennaro invites viewers into stillness and contemplation.
Grace DeGennaro explores the sacred geometric forms believed by Plato to be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The series contemplates timelessness, universal forms of order, and the luminous possibilities of color.
Wild Order
In Sophy Naess’s botanical paintings, flowers refuse stillness—they twist and turn, stretch and tremble, unfurling in states of near-animation.
A quiet choreography unfolds across her studies of anemones, poppies, and tulips, where gestural looseness contends with formal precision. Suspended between figuration and abstraction, her compositions reveal a deeper inquiry into both the architecture of the picture plane and the ephemeral nature of time.
Encounters
Grace Hager’s vivid, emotionally charged works hover between reality and reverie, offering a portal into nature’s quiet intensity. Through ceramic sculptures and paintings, she translates fleeting encounters—like firelight or a passing animal—into expressively heightened, contemplative forms.
With color as a guiding force, Hager's creations feel both personal and elemental—where memory, metaphor, and feeling converge.
This is what we’re seeing at this moment. This is important.
We don’t want people to forget this moment.
–Stephen Hendee
Final Warning
With luminous sculptures, intricate prints, and intimate drawings, Stephen Hendee explores virtual and physical spaces and mines technology's dark potential.
The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa)
For her exhibition The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa), Sophy Naess presents a monumental mural on silk that re-imagines the classical bather motif into a rendition of a Korean spa.
Reworking the art historical bather motif through a feminist lens, she layers bold hues into a scene where leisure, labor, and art intersect.
Blurring the Boundary between Painting and Sculpture
Known for her large-scale work that has filled museums, civic spaces, and galleries, Fabienne Lasserre’s Pitchables series emerged from her desire to create intimate work that can live alongside people in their everyday spaces, enabling the discovery and joy of recurrent close observation.
Presented together for the first time, the Pitchables inhabit the territory between painting and sculpture, body and space, color and form.
Friday Artworks
Friday Arts Films
Step inside Grace DeGennaro's Maine studio and witness her slow art practice of marking time with universal geometric forms, complex beaded lattices, and luminous washes of color.
Watch Sophy Naess bring a floral painting to life and discuss how weaving has transformed her improvisational approach to composition and form. In her studio, Naess navigates the tension between immediacy and structure, capturing the fleeting beauty of life as it unfolds and inevitably fades away.
Friday Artists
Joseph Minek
Joseph Minek crafts abstract photographs without a camera, pushing the boundaries of the medium. Manipulating photographic paper and chemistry, he produces arresting compositions of colliding color and form.
Fabienne Lasserre
Fabienne Lasserre makes boundary-blurring art, where painting meets sculpture and abstraction invites physical engagement. In her intimate Pitchables series, Lasserre celebrates materials, scale, and feminist themes.
Stephen Hendee
Stephen Hendee explores virtual and physical architectures with a distinctive and luminous material vocabulary. Alluding to early internet aesthetics, climate change, and dystopian futures, Hendee offers a prescient meditation on our accelerating digital embrace.
Grace DeGennaro
Grace DeGennaro's meditative paintings and works on paper feature luminous grounds, translucent forms, and meticulous geometric lattices. Transforming ancient symbols from Eastern and Western traditions into contemporary visual language, DeGennaro invites viewers to experience stillness.
Sophy Naess
Sophy Naess balances spontaneity and structure across painting, weaving, and printmaking, exploring beauty, decay, and the fleeting nature of time.
Grace Hager
Grace Hager engages the landscape tradition through expressionistic ceramic sculptures, paintings, and prints. Drawing on personal encounters with nature, her work reclaims bold psychedelic color to evoke awe, transformation, and the ungraspable.