UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Oct 1 - Nov 2, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, October 3, 6-8 pm

Laurie Alpert
“The Shape of Light”

Kathryn Geismar
”Becoming”

Laurie Alpert
“The Shape of Light”

Since my last show, I’ve been immersed in the language of cyanotype—letting light and time speak through paper. My images begin as quiet encounters: a window in a police station, tangled branches, drifting clouds, a shattered screen, a single carrot—ordinary things that catch my eye and hold it. I photograph them, drawn not by their meaning but by a certain pull, something visual. Through Photoshop, I reshape them—distort, layer, reimagine—until they become something funkier, stranger, more intimate. These altered visions find form as cyanotypes or sculptural Artists’ Books.

Some years ago, I became entranced by a bar of soap left on a sink outside my studio. That soap transformed itself into many prints, many books. The source is rarely the point. What matters is the transformation—the moment something familiar slips into the unfamiliar, and a new image begins to breathe.

Laurie will be present at the galleryon October 1, 8, 18 and November 2

 Kathryn Geismar
”Becoming”

Kathryn Geismar is an artist and mother whose work explores identity, individuation, and the complexity of selfhood. She is interested in the performative nature of the portrait: It is both a truth and a lie while asking to be seen as definitive.

The work in “Becoming” continues an ongoing project in which Geismar explores the fragile boundaries between self and other, mother and child, male and female. Figures move out of the center of the canvas, arriving or departing before the viewer’s eyes. Other portraits incorporate old symbols or drawings by her children that act as bridges between disparate times and different moments of being.

The project began as a way to engage with her transgender child’s transition; it now also includes her cis-gender child’s unfolding identity as well as her own identity as artist, mother, and female.