UPCOMING/CURRENT EXHIBIT

Letters to My Mother

Lydia Panas

February 7th through March 7th

Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 7th, from 6 to 9 pm

Performance Art, "What is Taken for Natural" by

Heather Sincavage

Friday, Feb 20th at 7:30 pm (dur 40 min)

Closing Party: Saturday, March 7th from 5 to 8 pm

with Artist Talk by Lydia Panas at 5:30 pm

Hope you will join us for the opening reception of our next exhibit, "Letters to My Mother", work never before exhibited by Lydia Panas.   The opening reception will be held on Saturday February 7th, from 6 to 9 pm.

Panas states, "Feeling unmoored after my mother died, I began writing letters to her in the form of drawings—things I had been unable to put into words. The drawings included lipstick impressions that echoed the way women in the 1960s and ’70s pressed their lipstick onto tissue after applying it."

This work merges writing, drawing, and personal artifacts to explore memory, loss, and the shifting line between private and public expression. In a more vulnerable and experimental direction, including video work, the artist invites the viewer to experience a broader reflection on grief, memory and what remains after loss.

On Februrary 20th, Performance Artist Heather Sincavage will be performing "What is Taken for Natural", a performance piece that examines how violence against women as well as the silencing of healing is normalized through social ritual, domestic enclosure, and enforced silence.  Drawing from Silvia Federici’s analysis of patriarchal capitalism, the work frames intimate partner violence  not as an aberration, but as a condition sustained by systems that privatize harm while demanding women’s  endurance.