Foundations

Ben Boothby, Celeste Henriquez, Geoff Masland, Dean McCrillis

October 10 - December 14, 2024

About the Show

The premise of this show is how memory impacts perception. More specifically, how memory of place shapes an artist's personal biography and influences their work. For every artist, a past or present sense of “home” is a site of personal historical significance. It plays a role in forming our sensibilities, our sense of self, and our individual narratives. Place memories, through their influence on identity and perception, play a powerful and complex role in an artist's studio practice. They contribute to distinctions between the work of one artist versus that of another due to the uniqueness of each, but they also connect us, in that reverberations of "home" and the lived experience of being "from" a given place are universal.

Featured Artists

Featured

Ben Boothby

Ben Boothby’s paintings are built from memories of architectural moments.

Celeste Henriquez

Celeste Henriquez’s gestural paintings are built from memories and relationships, internal and external.

Geoff Masland

Geoff Masland is interested in the tension between absence and presence, and the paradox of emptiness within excess.

Dean McCrillis

Dean McCrillis’s paintings are a bridge between natural history and personal history and, at their core, are compelled by both memory and discovery. It is a confluence of sorts