March 14, 2026 - April 5, 2026
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm. & by appointment (reach out to an artist)
Programming This Month
Saturday March 14th, 6-10pm
Opening Reception, Second Saturdays
Sunday March 29th, 7:00pm
Mission to Mars dir Brian di Palma - Film Screening in the backyard
$5-10 suggested donation notaflom
Rooms 1+2
The Dawn of Species Singularity Part II: An Organism of All Origins (DOSS AOOAO)
Diane Appaix-Castro and Lera Niemackl
The Dawn of Species Singularity Part II: An Organism of All Origins is the second chapter of an ongoing project set in Earth’s evolutionary future. Here, life has made its ultimate adaptation: genomic material is in constant transformation, learning, recombining, and reprogramming itself using the DNA of the past. In part II, the being’s presence is felt; its ever-evolving body traverses a landscape made of the remains of Earth’s former inhabitants, leaving evidence that it has only just passed through.
Diane Appaix-Castro and Lera Niemackl are interdisciplinary artists whose collaborative practice bridges sculpture, biology, and immersive installation. Diane, a French and Spanish artist based in New Orleans, creates experiential environments that investigate systems of meaning-making and perception. Her work draws on marine biology, astronomy, philosophy, and spiritual systems to question dominant narratives and encourage deeper relationships with the unknown.
Lera brings a background in synthetic biology and linguistics to her artistic research. With professional experience in transgenic sciences, her work often explores the theme of engineered life. She is known for formulating new mediums with living tissues from a variety of taxa.
Together, Diane and Lera create multisensory sculptural ecosystems that blur the boundaries between disciplines, species, and sensory experience. Their collaborative work invites curiosity, resists fixed interpretation, and explores the tension between the scientific and the unknowable. By integrating living materials and immersive design, they open space for complexity, empathy, and new ways of perceiving and relating to the world.
Room 3
WATER / NƯỚC
Veronica Y Pham
“Back then, as [they] trudged along the long, dusty expeditions and marches, [they] had imagined the springs of [their] birthplace, and in [their] mind, they no longer resembled mere brooks and streams but vast rivers surging with memories and hopes.” –Dương Thu Hương, No Man's Land
VERONICA Y PHAM works primarily in papermaking and fiber arts in her studio practice. Her work focuses on traditional craft specific to Vietnamese and Chinese histories to connect ideas of process, labor, and questions of identity. Her work considers materials as living forms and focuses on ecological investigations of plants to oral histories within craft. Pham has shown her work nationally and internationally with a recent curatorial project in Vietnam, spirit/hiện hũu: new forms on handmade paper. Pham has taught papermaking and fiber arts workshops at Penland School of Craft , Ox-Bow Paper Book Intensive, Minnesota Center for the Book, Chazen Arts Museum, Fresh Press Paper, and the Center for Southeast Asia in Wisconsin. Pham received her MFA in Textile Design, and Material Culture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently teaches design at the University of Vermont.
room 4
Patrick Stowe Jones, Eden Annex, Digital painting, 24 x 36 inches, 2025
Eden Annex
Patrick Stowe Jones
Eden Annex is a collection of digital paintings originating from a single vectorized black and white 35mm photograph. Through recursive operations that render and re-extract those vectors in color, form, mode, and transparency, a configuration space grows which operates a virtual object, a field of all possible forms latent within a single structure. Each digital painting is an occasion of that field; the source photograph neither appears nor disappears, but operates beneath each occasion as dark matter, invisible but responsible for the order of everything visible.
Encountered individually, each occasion its own world, with no reference to the field it belongs to necessary; likewise, the field does not appear in its entirety within any single occasion. No occasion is more valid, primal, or geometrically privileged than any other. They all come from the same source and obey the same laws, but those shared conditions confer no hierarchy. None is the definitive version, none is closer to the truth of the field than any other.
The field holds approximately 2¹²⁰ possible configurations, a number that exceeds the estimated atoms in the observable universe. No exhibition, no lifetime, or succession of lifetimes could exhaust it. Each occasion shown here is locally complete while the global structure it belongs to remains permanently out of reach.
Patrick Stowe Jones is an architect, product designer, and photographer based in New Orleans whose personal and professional practices have been shaped by questions of place, perception, and the philosophy of space.