Contemplating Change

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“Contemplating Change,” 2024

(courtesy of the Gallery)

Group exhibition with artists:

Alison Shields

Farheen HaQ

Gerry Ambers

Kosar Movahedi

Lajah Warren

Paolino Caputo

Shawna Kiesman

Curated by Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé

Artists hold the creative ability to alter reality; to influence and shift the physical and metaphysical worlds. For many of us, change is unpredictable, unknown, stressful, and even frightening. But thriving in moments of change, artists create from the necessity to communicate an idea that is reshaped and reinterpreted. The artworks of seven influential local artists come together in exhibition to contemplate the meaning of change. 

Through their own individual practices, they allow their processes to be witnessed and exposed. The artworks carry with them the memories and possibilities of decision making and shifting ideas. By each stroke of a brush, stitch of a needle, click of a mouse, mark of a pen, and flip of a card, these seven artists share with us and with one another their interests and ways of connecting. They have embraced change not to be feared but to be encapsulated by and to allow the unpredictability of human intervention.