Opening Reception

Friday, February 13, 7-9 pm

Liminal Space

This body of work began with contour-line figure drawings made from life. Rather than completing or fully rendering these figures, I allowed them to remain open and unresolved, using them as a starting point for layered mixed-media exploration. Torn paper, graphite, ink, gouache, and water-soluble colored pencil were built up and worked back into the drawings, pushing the figures into a suspended state, and appearing grounded within a liminal space.

My process is intuitive and rooted in searching for visual relationships between line and shape. I partially flatten the space while still suggesting areas of form, avoiding traditional rendering. I am less interested in accurately describing volume than in implying dimension and presence, allowing the figures to hover between emergence and dissolution.

Line is central to this work and to the idea of liminality. Lines are varied, broken, buried, erased, and layered over one another, creating shifts in clarity across the figure or figures. Some marks survive multiple layers and become embedded in the surface, giving the work a subtle sculptural quality. Through this accumulation and erosion, the figures exist in fluctuating states of visibility, echoing the transitional nature of liminal space.

Show runs through March 14, 2026