EXHIBITIONS

On View: September 19th - November 24th, 2024

Opening Reception: September 19th, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Zameen Aasman Ka Farq - As far apart as the Earth is from the Sky contemplates the affection between Indian men: the holding of hands, interlocking of pinkies, or the intimate leaning into one another.

This physical touch offers a window into the complexities of friendship, love, sexuality, and queerness. Marc Ohrem-Leclef uses photographs and texts to visualize the many forms love takes on for his collaborators, from the open and socially accepted to the unspoken. 

Individuals across the gender, class, and religious spectrum share how they experience touch, its importance, and evolving norms—both expanding and constricting-amid LGBTQ+ identity politics. How do straight, cisgender men hold same-sex affection dear? What does it mean for queer-identifying collaborators?

Many collaborators trust Ohrem-Leclef with their deeply personal histories only because he is an outsider. Often, they bond over a shared search for belonging and community-his own, being rooted in his queer, bicultural identity. Seated together in their rooms, in fields, and in parks, many speak of the "love that flows" when they hold a friend's hand in certain ways. Some, bound by circumstance, are unable to articulate their desire for same-sex love; others, living fluid lives in traditional cultural spaces—usually outside cities—have no need to name their identities.

Zameen archives a profoundly human desire to connect through touch. What is perceived as "queer" or "traditional" remains in flux, set against rapidly-shifting standards and differing gazes. Ultimately, Ohrem-Leclef looks to his collaborators, who construct spaces for themselves, irrespective of labels.

On View: September 19th - November 24th, 2024

Opening Reception: September 19th, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Kris Sanford, Andrés Pérez, and Matthew Finley all use photographic archives to weave narratives that should be an integral part to our societal record without a past of collective marginalization and fear. In each case, the artists weave vintage photographs into queer narratives of historical representation. 

On View: October 24th - November 24th, 2024

Opening Reception: October 24th, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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I use the camera to delve into the strangeness of my small West Texas hometown, capturing the characters who shape the community and connecting them to my personal experiences. By blending the practices of journalism and documentary photography, I explore working life, regional culture, the economy, and the concept of home in Pecos—a desert town marked by the cycles of the oil boom and bust.

Through photography, along with occasional video, text, and mixed media, I document how communities express their lives through food, family, music, dance, and fashion. My work aims to sensitively portray rural life, highlighting intimate moments: families at home, local workers, teens riding rodeo horses, my own relatives, and the vast West Texas landscape. I embrace the "boredom" of a place often perceived as having nothing to do, while revealing the rich personal and collective narratives beneath the surface.

At its heart, my work is a love letter to Pecos, grounded in a deep commitment to documenting its history and culture with closeness, care, and respect.

On View: December 12th, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Opening Reception: December 12th, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Mona Bozorgi is an artist-scholar whose interdisciplinary research and artistic practice explore the correlation between representation and performativity in photography. Bozorgi's artistic practice is intertwined with posthuman critical theory and focuses on the materialization of bodies and how it affects the construction and production of identities. As an Iranian-born artist, her work confronts historical exclusions based on gender and provides alternative ways of understanding the contemporary self. Bozorgi's recent work blends photography, textiles, and installation, troubles the traditional view of photographs as flat objects, and demonstrates the entanglement between the materiality of photographs and their meanings. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. Bozorgi is an Assistant Professor of Photography and the head of Photography and Moving Image area in the Department of Art at Florida State University.

On View: December 12th, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Opening Reception: December 12th, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories. Warpinski received a B.A. in Humanistic Studies with an emphasis in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. in Drawing and Photography and an M.F.A. in Photography from the University of Iowa. Warpinski was distinguished as a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Israel in 2000-2001, as Professor Emerita in 2016 after a 32-year teaching career at the University of Oregon, was the Honored Educator of the Society for Photographic Education and received a DAAD Research Fellowship to Berlin for her long-term project Death|s|trip in 2018. Upcoming solo exhibitions include the Photographer’s Eye Collective in Escondido, California (2024), Vincennes University in Indiana (2025), and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon (2026).

A native of Northeastern Wisconsin, Terri once again resides along the Fox River in the glacially carved landscape that is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk) & Menominee (Kāēyās maceqtawak) Nations with her husband, David Graham, where they created newARTSpace, a non-commercial artist-driven exhibition space.