Whitespace Winter Exhibitions (fridays)

From the venue:

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? | Jason Matherly

December 13, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Opening Reception | Saturday, December 13 | 6-9pm
 

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Cleave - Laura Bell

October 24, 2025 - January 17, 2026

Cleave is a site-specific installation that delves into my relationship to the natural world from the vantage of memory, emotion, and observation. This connection is grounded by astonishment and hope but also shaped by grief. Within that dialog is an ongoing process of acceptance that destruction and change are inevitable and necessary for growth and renewal. While the work mourns damage and loss, it ultimately pays homage to the interwoven moments of wonder, mystery, and beauty. There is solace to be found in the persistence of nature and in recognizing the inextricable ties that physically unite humans with the living world.

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Sideroads in Stereoscope - Serena Perrone

December 13, 2025 - January 17, 2026

Sideroads in Stereoscope (looping animated gif, duration variable, 2020) combines imagery of Iceland and Sicily in side-by-side landscapes. The title borrows from the book of poetry Sideroads by the late Icelandic poet Jonas Thorbjarnarson who died in Italy in 2012. The looping gif consists of close to 200 postage-stamp sized, toned cyanotypes of the Icelandic and Sicilian landscape that bear uncanny resemblances to one another. Often shot by the artist through the windows of moving cars or while walking in remote areas like lava tubes, basalt caves and rocky beaches, these quickly-framed images are presented side-by side as if they were two views of the same scene from slightly different perspectives, as would be done to create a stereoscope, a photographic effect that fools the eye into superimposing two scenes, resulting in the sensation of seeing an image in 3-D. The flickering pace, distortion and small scale assist in putting the focus on the similarity of the forms rather than the details of the two landscapes, which, devoid of their natural colors, could be confused one for the other. This mimics the sensations of dislocation experienced by the artist during an intense sequence of consecutive trips between the two volcanic terrains in a single year.

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Transformer

These paintings draw inspiration from two unexpected sources. The first was a child’s artwork I saw on a client’s refrigerator, an exuberant, uninhibited burst of color that reminded me of the power of unfiltered expression. The second came from my own studio practice. I often work with multiple palettes, and after each session their accidental marks and natural color harmonies felt like artworks in themselves. I began saving them on my wall, and their spontaneity ultimately shaped this body of work. The exhibition title, Transformer, reflects the shifting relationship between figure and ground within these pieces. Even in abstraction, suggestions of atmosphere and form appear, dissolve, and re-emerge. I’m interested in allowing solid elements to fade so the surrounding space can envelop them, emphasizing the fluidity between presence and absence. At their core, these works explore transformation of ideas, of paint, and of color as layers overlap, interact, cancel each other out, and reveal new moments of clarity. Elements rise and recede, creating a continuous sense of movement that drives the work forward.

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