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
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