Indie Rokkers at Sandler Hudson Gallery

Indie Rokkers at Sandler Hudson Gallery is a group exhibition curated by Isaac Mehki that brings together a multigenerational group of artists exploring the conceptual and material dimensions of play.

Spanning painting, sculpture, and expanded media, the works on view examine play not as an escape from everyday life, but as one of its most generative conditions. Across the exhibition, play emerges as a site of tension between structure and improvisation, constraint and freedom, sincerity and absurdity.

Drawing on ideas such as Johan Huizinga’s “magic circle,” the exhibition reframes play as inseparable from lived experience—an active mode of inquiry rather than a separate realm. Through repetition, mimicry, humor, and critique, the artists engage play as a means of interrogating power, navigating contemporary conditions of time and attention, and constructing provisional worlds that reflect and reshape reality.

Featuring work by Harrison Wayne, Jill Frank, Deborah Zlotsky, Craig Drennen, Ezekiel Robinson, Kevin Hopkins, Sergio Suarez, Renee Stout, Mono Feo, Shawn Campbell, John Oetgen, Ross Landenberger, and David Ivie, Indie Rokkers presents play as both a method and a critical tool—one that offers new ways of seeing, understanding, and participating in the world.

Artists: Harrison Wayne; Jill Frank; Deborah Zlotsky; Craig Drennen; Ezekiel Robinson; Kevin Hopkins; Sergio Suarez; Renee Stout; Mono Feo; Shawn Campbell; John Oetgen; Ross Landenberger; David Ivie

Venue: Sandler Hudson Gallery

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