January 8 - February 17, 2026
Order and Other brings together fourteen artists whose abstract practices engage systems, structures, and the quiet pressures that emerge when order begins to loosen. Across painting, photography, and mixed media, the exhibition considers abstraction as a site of negotiation – between control and intuition, repetition and variation, coherence and instability.
Rather than advancing a singular visual logic, Order and Other foregrounds difference. The works on view move through grids, bands, loops, planes, and constructed spaces that feel provisional rather than fixed, proposing order as something tested, recalibrated, and occasionally undone.
Several works in the exhibition articulate this tension with particular clarity. Beverly Acha’s Conchita/Plantita (or five circles and a sun) (2023) organizes color and curvature into a spatial system that hovers between architectural logic and perceptual drift, where repetition becomes a site of slippage rather than certainty. Trudy Benson’s The End is Where We Start From (2025) compresses airbrushed line and interlocking planes into a charged field that appears stable from a distance but dissolves into motion up close. In Molly Greene’s Homebody (2025), organic forms drawn from scientific and botanical vocabularies quietly resist fixed binaries, allowing abstraction to function as a feminist inquiry into interiority and the body. Richard Tinkler’s FS1.13 (2025) advances a serial, labor-intensive approach in which geometric structure is layered until it begins to waver, producing a surface that feels both rigid and hallucinatory. In Erin O’Keefe’s Snake Eyes (2024), photographic abstraction emerges through constructed space, as painted wooden forms collapse depth and orientation into an image that resists a single point of view.
Elsewhere in the exhibition, artists extend these concerns through distinct formal languages. Pattern becomes a method for disruption, repetition opens onto difference, and surfaces register labor, intuition, and revision. Across the gallery, abstraction functions not as an escape from meaning, but as a disciplined inquiry into how systems are built – and how they begin to fail.
Together, the works in Order and Other propose abstraction as an active contemporary language: one capable of holding contradiction, ambiguity, and instability without seeking resolution. Order persists, but only alongside the forces that complicate, erode, and quietly transform it.
Participating Artists:
Beverly Acha, Trudy Benson, Michael Childress, Molly Greene, Angela Heisch, Alessandro Keegan, Matthew Kleberg, Tanner Lind, Zoe McGuire, Robert Moreland, Erin O’Keefe, Machteld Rullens, Richard Tinkler, Marc Joshua Epstein