In Obstructed View, four artists—Sarah Schlesinger, Georgia-May Travers Cook, Cait Porter, and Cate Pasquarelli—invite us to linger at the edges of a story. Each work offers a vantage point that is framed, cropped, or partially concealed: an endless horizon truncated by foliage, a miniature town seen only through its façades, an interior distilled to a single charged detail, a figure fragmented by the screen that mediates it. These scenes, poised between intimacy and distance, turn the act of looking into an act of imagining.
Across painting and sculpture, the artists explore the thresholds between public and private, exterior and interior, fact and fiction. In Schlesinger’s layered horizons, what’s hidden shapes what’s seen; in Travers Cook’s tautly composed narratives, a ribbon, a cherry stem, or the corner of a face becomes the only clue to the larger scene; in Porter’s still lifes, quiet objects hold the weight of presence and absence; and in Pasquarelli’s dioramas, the miniature scale invites a close look while keeping the full story just out of reach. Together, they reveal that what is withheld can be as evocative—and as telling—as what is laid bare.
