JULY, 2025 – UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

August, August 1 – 31 JOTFORM LINK

Inhabiting Space: Presence, Purpose, and Possibility

September, September 5 – 28

Regimes of Truth: Art, Power, and the Making of Reality

October, October 3 – Nov 2

Interpretation: Experience Over Explanation

November – November 7 – 30

Holiday Show ( small works less than 20×20) all members participate

December – December 5 – 28

Holiday Show ( small works less than 20×20) all members participate

A Note to Participating Artists

The themes of this exhibition series are open-ended and intentionally broad, designed to inspire interpretation rather than impose constraints. You are encouraged to approach each theme through your own lens—conceptually, emotionally, materially, or experientially.

Please do not feel limited by the descriptions or discouraged if your initial impression is that your work does not directly align. The beauty of this process lies in uncovering unexpected connections, in allowing the themes to provoke new ways of thinking, challenge assumptions, and recontextualize your ideas.

This is not about fitting into a category—it’s about using the framework as a catalyst to explore, question, and reimagine.

Let the theme be a prompt, not a prescription. We welcome diverse interpretations that continue the ongoing dialogue between art and the world around us.

About the themes:

Inhabiting Space: Presence, Purpose, and Possibility

What does it mean to occupy a space, with our bodies, our memories, our ideas?

Inhabiting Space: Presence, Purpose, and Possibility brings together a diverse group of artists whose work reflects on the layered dimensions of space, not just as a

physical site, but as a vessel for meaning, identity, and transformation. In this exhibition, space is considered fluid and alive: a place that shapes us as much as we shape it.

Through painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media, the artists engage with a range of environments, intimate, imagined, contested, or transitional. Some works explore architectural structures and domestic interiors, while others evoke the emotional or psychological territories we carry within us. In every case, the act of inhabiting becomes an inquiry into presence: how we show up, what we leave behind, and what we make possible.

The show also invites viewers to reflect on how creative presence transforms space. A gallery, once neutral and unmarked, becomes a living archive of artistic intent. In a broader sense, this exhibition offers a meditation on how we, as individuals and communities, claim, build, protect, and reimagine the spaces around us.

In a time when access to space is increasingly fragile and fraught, Inhabiting Space

asserts the power of art to reclaim, redefine, and re-enchant the places we call our own.

Regimes of Truth: Art, Power, and the Making of Reality

What is truth, and who decides? These questions lie at the heart of Regimes of Truth, an exhibition that brings together artists who examine the structures that shape our understanding of reality. Inspired by the theories of French philosopher Michel Foucault, this show explores how truth is not an absolute or neutral concept but generated through power, discourse, and institutional influence.

Foucault argued that each society produces its own “regime of truth”, a system of knowledge, norms, and authority that determines what is accepted as true and who is permitted to define it. These regimes are supported through political or legal systems and culture, language, education, and media. In this context, art is far from passive; it is a site where truth is constructed and contested.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider art not merely a reflection of society but an active force in shaping it. The artists included in Regimes of Truth work across media and methodologies to:

• Critique the dominant narratives and ideologies implanted in everyday

• Reveal hidden or suppressed perspectives through visual, material, or performative means.
• Engage with the institutional settings in which truth is produced, galleries, schools, histories, and archives.
• Reimagine what could be seen, said, and known in a society conditioned by invisible rules

In doing so, their work aligns with Foucault’s notion of critique, not as destruction, but as an ethical practice of making the familiar strange and the invisible visible.

At a time when contested realities and competing truths shape public discourse and personal identities, Regimes of Truth asks: What role can artists play in questioning what we take for granted? How do creative practices open space for resistance, imagination, and transformation?

This exhibition offers a collection of artworks and a provocation: to reconsider how we know what we know and what futures become possible when those truths are challenged.

Interpretation: Experience Over Explanation

Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking ideas about art invite both artists and audiences to move beyond mere interpretation and instead embrace art as a direct, sensory, and transformative experience . She famously argued that the overemphasis on decoding hidden meanings and searching for content in art risks impoverishing our encounters with it, turning vibrant works into simply puzzles to be solved or moral lessons to be extracted. For Sontag, genuine engagement with art means allowing ourselves to feel before explaining, a return to truly seeing, hearing, and sensing, rather than reducing a painting, poem, or performance to a single message or ideological stance.

To embody Sontag’s philosophy in their own creations, artists can focus on foregrounding the direct impact of their chosen forms, materials, and styles, rather than treating style as something superficial or secondary. Experimenting boldly with forms, through color, texture, rhythm, and composition, artists can craft works that are not just about something but are, in themselves, experiences to be lived and felt. Artists might also explore the “aesthetics of silence”, using restraint, emptiness, or ambiguity as

powerful communicative tools, inviting viewers to linger with uncertainty or tension without rushing to interpret. By resisting the urge to provide easy explanations or moral judgments and instead nurturing art’s capacity to make us nervous, exhilarated, or contemplative, artists can create masterpieces that open up space for fresh attention and a deeper, more profound encounter with the world.