Holding Multitudes Art Exhibit

We see our artmaking practices as dissecting systems to forge connections with the people and environments around us. Through research, reflection, and tactile making, we treat our studio practice as a laboratory- a place to critique that world while also working to heal and nurture it.

Working across a wide range of mediums, we explore ideas that extend beyond technique and material. Our work touches on domestic labor, ritual, ecology, memory, vulnerability, and perseverance. While each artist here approaches these subjects differently, connections emerge through the ways they collect, repeat, transform, repair, and tend to materials.

Fragility and humor come together in Tanya Gill’s work, creating a connection to Lois Bielefeld’s exploration of absurd labor. Tulika Ladsariya, Vanessa Filley, and Marzena Ziejka each work through accumulation, creating ethereal objects and layered records of obsessive collecting. Jennifer Mannebach’s vibrant palette and visualized emotional boundaries resonate with Rita Grendze’s wrapped sculptures; both artists draw on an abundance of materials from everyday life. Holly Cahill’s compost pots and Jill Lanza’s handwoven placemats consider consumption, digestion, and decomposition through materials and processes associated with the domestic. Katherine Lampert and Yoonshin Park ask for a different kind of attention altogether: a deep stillness and a willingness to look slowly, engaging the whole body in ways that extend beyond what the eye or mind can grasp alone.

Throughout the exhibition, there’s a shared spirit of curiosity and sustained material investigation. Our varied artistic approaches reveal unexpected relationships between the everyday and the poetic, labor and ritual, fragility and endurance. Together, the works hold multitudes of opportunities to slow down, look closely, and consider how meaning can emerge through the things we make, use, gather, and care for.