Change undergirds human experience. We can trace our formative moments to a disorienting rupture that intrudes and interrupts the fixed structures we have built, breaking down strategies that we have devised in order to gain a sense of stability and agency. The environments we inhabit are in a perpetual state of transformation, either due to the cycles of nature or the ecological impacts of man’s actions. Entering or being entered into change, leads us to questioning, thus in constantly being faced with change we will always find ourselves oscillating between varying degrees of knowing and uncertainty. How then do we deal with the reality that change will always be inevitable?

In this exhibition, the artists survey various states within the spectrum of change—from the gradual and unexpected, to the volatile and winding states of transfiguration. The audience will find multiple paths of exploration: presented within mazes and spiderwebs, as journeys in themselves that confuse or mesmerize through complex patterns that play on the proximity or eruption of lines; within language and word games employed as mediums that embody the difficulties in navigating uncertainty; and within paintings that depict how the changes we undergo burrow into our subconscious and manifest themselves in dreamscapes where memories coalesce. Errant and chaotic change is also presented through an amalgamation of imagery, sound and pyrograph. The audience will also discover how disrepair and decay can offer possibilities for renewal and reincarnation—through depictions of ephemera, and through altered and manipulated photographs. In other works, conventions of beauty are broken down and altered as a gesture of resistance towards the projection of superficial aesthetics.

-Pam Quinto