Unearthing
Unearthing engages with the idea of a future that is not predetermined, but rather a dynamic, evolving possibility shaped by our collective actions, imaginations, and introspections. In this exhibition, artists across mediums unearth speculative landscapes, exploring a future that emerges not only from our current reality but from the tensions between the known and the unknown, the real and the imagined. The works featured here are a dialogue between the present and the yet-to-be, a conversation that dares to ask: What lies
beneath the surface of our time? What futures are possible if we dare to reimagine and reshape the forces that define our world?
Through innovative use of sculpture, painting, installation, and interactive experiences, each work in the exhibition contributes to a broader narrative of exploration and possibility. The exhibition seeks not only to represent potential futures but also to engage viewers in actively questioning and shaping the world to come.
online exhibition
John Calabrese
Delicate nuance of value and texture become tools in conveying powerful dramatic statements about earthly
beings who are not afraid to wonder, think, dream, and take that one step beyond. The inhabitants of the cosmic atmosphere appear at odds with their surroundings (many of which are actual, specifically named astronomical objects). This is the result when the merely earthly confronts its unavoidable connection to the awe, mystery, and majesty of the heavens. However, when fragile earthly beauty confronts sublime heavenly beauty, the earthly is reverently and silently humbled.
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When Worlds Collide, 2013
Graphite pencil on paper
20" x 16"
$2,300
Erica
Frisk
Decisions for Eternity, 2021
Archival Inkjet Print
24" x 20" x 1"
$500
The Terra Series started in 2021 showcases scenery that is distorted, unknown and mysterious - it pulls at us with questions. Where is this place? Does it exist here on earth? Is this the future of our planet? For many of these places, the spectacular formations were created shift-by-shift over millions of years through rock, ice and water. The slow continuous flux being the thing that has remained constant. The colors, vibrations, tones and textures lure you into apocalyptic visions of the land. This project, with images shot in various parts of the world, explores ideas around the spaces here on earth and our impact on them as well as what these could look like in our future. There is so much we have yet to know or understand; spaces in time we have yet to imagine. Even so, as we view these otherworldly scenes, we remain grounded in this earth, our terra.
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Chemical Friction, 2021
Archival Inkjet Print
20" x 24" x 1"
$500
Serene Disturbance, 2021
Archival Inkjet Print
24" x 20" x 1"
$500
Katherine Filice
The Sugar Pine Was Silent While the Raven Mocked The Wind, 2024
Ink and sculpted paper
30.5 x 38 in (77.47 x 96.52 cm)
Framed: 36.5 x 44 x 2 in (92.71 x 111.76 x 5.08 cm) $4,400
As a multimedia abstract artist, I merge ink, sculpted paper, mica, natural objects, oil, and drawing to explore spiritual boundaries, connections, and collective memories. My work is deeply informed by Northern California's ancient forests, where towering conifers embody both vastness and the cyclical illusion of time. Their bark, branches, and beetle trails reveal layered histories, blurring the lines between past, present, and future. Through processes such as integrating organic materials and sometimes even burying raw canvas to let the earth leave its mark, I invite the forest to co-create with me. These acts transform my work into speculative landscapes, where the seen and unseen, real and imagined, converge. By exploring the forest’s spiritual landscapes, I aim to create spaces for introspection. My work asks, “Where are we?” and offers an answer both rooted and expansive: “We are nowhere, and we are everywhere.”
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Jai
Gervin
Space Dance, 2024
Mixed Media paper using Acrylic Paint
11" x 15"
$300
For me, art is both therapeutic and fascinating. I’ve always been intrigued in how two or more people can look at the same piece yet interpret it differently. You will find that my art is much deeper than the first glance. It reflects life experiences, inspirations, emotions and stories I have fabricated along the way. I tend to create pieces that are personal to me and relatable to others. I am no stranger to thinking outside of the box and creating art that sparks conversations. My art follows no rules. It is bold, vibrant, thought provoking, diverse, distorted and interesting. I create original one-time pieces that are never duplicated.
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Telling Stories, 2024
Mixed Media paper using Acrylic Paint
9" x 12"
$285
Outcasts, 2024
Mixed Media on Canvas
24" x 36"
$825
Rachel Heibel
Stop Light, 2024
Stoneware, earth ocher dyed beeswax, found glass components, electrical components
My practice explores the relationship between the body and the objects that shape our daily lives. The repetitive nature of my ceramic work is a meditative act, echoing the disciplined sports training of my childhood. It is a grounding, therapeutic outlet, helping me navigate chronic pain through touch and movement. This process engages haptic perception, or the way we understand our environment through physical interaction, allowing me to explore the intimate dialogue between material, maker, and memory. Growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a city with a rich history in furniture design, I was immersed in a culture that valued labor and craftsmanship. My grandfather’s work at American Seating instilled in me an appreciation for objects as both functional tools and markers of history. These influences, combined with my own physical experiences, have heightened my awareness of the interplay between bodies and the objects we rely on, revealing how they both support and shape our daily functions. Ultimately, I’m seeking to craft objects that hint at the utility and domestic familiarity of ceramics yet remain just elusive enough to invite a second look. By blending recognizable forms with unexpected materials, textures, or colors I hope to create pieces that stir a sense of recollection, prompting viewers to reconsider the everyday objects that often go unnoticed while providing the viewer with a new . This ambiguity invites them to pull from their own memories of familiar shapes and question the value and presence of these forms in their lives, exploring what it means to truly engage with, rather than simply possess, the objects that surround us.
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Matching Freckles on our Heels, 2024
slip cast glazed porcelain, beeswax, maple
Sleeping with my Socks on, 2024
Glazed stoneware, beeswax
David Jacobs
David Jacobs lives in Waco, Texas and is a self-taught mixed media assemblage artist. In 2022 his work was called compelling by a curator at the Dallas Museum of Art. He began exhibiting his work in 2023 and in that short period of time he has been juried as a Finalist in September 2023 at the SwissArtExpo 5.0 in Zurich Switzerland for his work "Spaceship to Mars". And, his work "Spaceship to Mars" has been a juried finalist in Cloudfolio's virtual expo. In October 2023 his work "Size7" has been a finalist in Oxford Art Alliance's exhibition in Oxford Pennsylvania. Also, in 2023 he was a runner-up in a virtual art contest sponsored by Apealz with his work "Drumbeat". "Drumbeat" was chosen as a finalist in the juried Arts for the Arts exhibition in Norfolk Virginia running through February 2024, and the online exhibition sponsored by Exibizone that runs through February 20, 2024 and was also featured in the 40th edition of the international magazine Artistonish.
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Mohawklux, 2023
Assemblage
36" x 12" x 8"
$900
Conflicted, 2024
Assemblage
40" x 24" x 12"
$1,200
Taerim
Kim
A Bowl and Rectangle, 2023
Oil on Canvas
60" x 72"
$8,000
I am an artist who works mostly with painting. Inspired by expressionists such as de Kooning, Kiefer, and Cecily Brown, my paintings land on the boundary between representation and abstraction. My works commemorate the fleeting landscape of "Geumho San," the slums in Seoul, South Korea where I grew up. Geumho San was built during the struggles of Japan's withdrawal and Korean War, but is now quickly eroded away by urbanization. I attempt to retain the tactile quality of these memories through thick paint application. Meanwhile, my gestural brushstrokes and muted palette blur and destabilize the structure of the scenery to suggest the passage of time. By rematerializing Geumho San on canvas, I transform a place usually deemed as not worth depicting into the emotional remnant of my memory. However, I extract and exaggerate the uncertain elements in the landscape with abstract expression, sharing with my viewers the elusiveness of my memory.
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Pillars, 2024
Oil on Canvas
60" x 72"
$8,000
Another Passage, 2024
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
60" x 72"
$8,000
Hunter Mestman
Who's face is it 8, 2024
Aluminum
30" x 20" x 0.34"
$500
My art is a celebration of imperfection, using bold expression and asymmetry to transform negativity into something raw and beautiful. I believe that the opposite of depression is expression, and each piece I create is a release of emotion that leaves behind honesty and beauty. Art is deeply personal yet universal-if it resonates with even one person beyond myself, it has achieved its purpose. My work invites viewers to find their own stories within it, connecting us through the shared human experience.
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Who's Face is it 3, 2024
Aluminum
20" x 20" x 0.34"
$500
Who's Face is it 1, 2024
Aluminum
20" x 20" x 0.34"
$500
Meredith Olinger
Copy Cover Cloak, 2023
Wallpaper, Oil, Acrylic, Ink, Crayon and Paper on Panel
24" x 36"
$1,700
I work with wallpaper that I design, create and print myself. I design and produce wallpapers both digitally and by hand, using techniques like screen printing, block printing, painting, and drawing. These wallpapers get collaged onto a surface: canvas, board, or directly onto a wall. Then I rip them away, place them back in, and rip again. Throughout the process, I photograph my work as it evolves, then digitally assemble these images in Photoshop and Illustrator to create additional wallpaper patterns that echo their previous forms. I have also begun painting directly on the surface of my pieces, using my past work as a reference. This cyclical approach allows my art to continually consume and recreate itself. I am interested in ideas of home, ornamentation, and consumption, both of objects and images. My work explores the possibilities of digital representation, the distinctions between art and craft and the space between two-dimensional works and immersive installations.
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Tangle and Oldest Pattern, 2023
Wallpaper, Oil, Acrylic, Ink, Crayon and Paper on Panel
24" x 36"
$1,700
Elise
Racine
My work explores the intersection of physical spaces and the invisible infrastructures that govern them, investigating how surveillance and computational systems reshape urban environments. In these three pieces, part of my QR Destinies series, I unearth speculative urban landscapes marked by algorithmic control, oversight, and erasure. These works imagine futures not as linear extensions of the present but as fragmented possibilities forged in the friction between the known and the unknown, the collision of the tangible and the virtual. Glitch, rendered on four panels, fractures a curved architectural space into vertical segments, where QR codes overlay undulating walls like digital specters of surveillance. Metallic surfaces catch the shifting light, echoing the instability of these impermanent systems, while a distorted checkerboard floor ripples below, symbolizing the erosion of movement and autonomy. In contrast, the more intimate Algorithmic Cityscapes & Urban Distortions decode the systematic remaking of urban structures into binary terrains of restriction and judgment, visualizing how technological systems mediate lived experiences. Rooted in queer perspectives on surveillance and categorization, these works interrogate the colonization of urban spaces by digital infrastructures. Through layered abstractions, stark geometries, and dynamic distortions, they question what these developments mean for identity, freedom, visibility, and belonging. By surfacing these tensions, the series invites viewers to reflect on the speculative possibilities—and limitations—of our AI-powered futures.
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*Special offers:
(1) Urban Distortions & Algorithmic Cityscapes for $400 or,
(2) All three pieces for $1100.
Black and White photos are to show detail of the printed image.
Glitch, 2024
Direct digital art print on brushed aluminum; comprised of four panels
20" x 28.5″
(each panel’s dimensions: 5 x 28.5″ with an anticipated 1-1.5″ between panels)
$850
Urban Distortions, 2024
Direct digital art print on brushed aluminum
20.6" x 9"
$275
Algorithmic Cityscapes, 2024
Direct digital art print on brushed aluminum
14.2" x 9"
$200
John
Ralston V
Hvarlsagh, 2024
Paint, Plaster, Resin
28" x 44″
$2,200
My art explores the essence of ingots—condensed, invaluable symbols of accumulation and time. Like ingots refined from raw material, my work distills the environment, emphasizing fundamental elements. These pieces serve as metaphors for the familiar and the mysterious, bridging earthly elements and celestial secrets to challenge perceptions of matter and existence. The universe, with its mysteries and transformative forces, inspires my practice. Heat, time, erosion, and friction—forces that shape existence—are mirrored in my work as I reuse waste and byproducts, giving them new life. My art reflects the cyclical nature of existence, where abundance and scarcity are intertwined. Rejecting fleeting trends and prevailing art-world norms, I aim for universal connection. Each piece is a personal journey, tracing the evolution of skills from curiosity to mastery. Through the interplay of color and composition, I invite viewers to uncover deeper truths and embrace the coexistence of opposites. In a world of contradictions and superficiality, my work offers a sanctuary of pure emotion and thought, resisting the trivial and reclaiming meaning. It is both a visual and introspective experience, encouraging self-discovery and a deeper understanding of our place in the universe.
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Benjamin
Sears
For as long as I can remember I have drawn from my imagination. As a child my drawings were filled with spaceships and robots engaged in epic battles. Over the years my imagery began to include architecture, figures and nature. When drawing I experience a sense of connection with a deeply buried part of myself. Maybe this is why my drawings often feel subterranean. Drawing for me is like an archeological dig. I draw to feel wonder, surprise and delight. My imagery is shaped by environments that have resonated with me, both real and imagined. Figurative, constructed and natural forms inhabit the spaces in my drawings. These images always tell me stories and suggest narratives that relate back to my feelings and experiences in the world.
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Marrow, 2021
Charcoal and Ink on paper
22" x 27"
$3,000
Yelena Safronova
I draw inspiration from our natural environment, its seeming eternal stability and actual constant change due to its nature and human exploration. More specifically, I am transfixed with the beauty of the mountains of California, the ever-blue sky, the colors of the earth, the aroma of the fauna. I have previously exhibited figurative work; this is a new series.
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Angeles National Forest (Diptych), 2024
Oil on Linen
20" x 30" each, or 40" x 30" together
$8,000
Ira
Upin
Triumph, 2024
Oil on Panel
36" x 36"
$9,000
Throughout my 55+ years career as an artist I have mostly painted thematic hyper realistic narratives. I try and tell a literal story that may or may not be interpreted by the viewer with the same meaning as I intended. After this last election I feel untethered from reality, where up is down, black is white, and truth is buried by misinformation and ignorance. These new paintings feel as though I’m just floating in a miasma of visions of things that make little sense, have no literal meaning, and may or may not be real, other than their physical presence. You decide!
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Matador, 2024
Oil on Panel
36" x 37"
$10,000
Heading Home, 2024
Oil on Panel
36" x 43"
$12,000
Jing (Ellen) Xu
I am so Hot, 2022
Acrylic, Marker, and Modeling Clay on Canvas
24" x 36" x 2.5"
$7,000
I am a multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China, and now based in Queens, NY. Art is my expressive language, conveying my emotions and perceptions of the world. My education in China has provided me with a strong foundation across diverse mediums, which form the core of my artistic identity. In this piece, I combine acrylic, modeling clay, and marker drawing on canvas to playfully explore themes of time, reality, memory, history, and fantasy. The modeling clay, intentionally chosen for its organic properties, undergoes subtle color transformations when exposed to sunlight. This evolution of hue symbolizes my respect and humility toward nature, capturing the essence of time’s passage and its intricate relationship with memory. Each shift in color serves as a reminder of the ever-changing nature of our experiences and the stories we carry with us. Through this work, I strive to create a dialogue that resonates with the viewer, encouraging them to reflect on their own journeys through time and imagination. Through labor-intensive and repetitive techniques, I highlight the often-unseen labor of women, drawing attention to their contributions throughout history. Repetition, expansion, and nuance are central to my practice, bringing a sense of life and movement to my paintings. By inviting viewers into this dynamic experience, I aim to foster inclusivity and inspire a collective pursuit of positive change.
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I am so Cool, 2022
Acrylic, Marker, and Modeling Clay on Canvas
24" x 36" x 4"
$7,000