Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 4-7 PM
Exhibition Dates: Monday, March 16 – Wednesday, April 8
Exhibiting Artist: Melissa McDonough & Maryam Safajoo
Artist: Melissa McDonough
Title: Presence With Light: Dimensional Paintings
In her site-specific practice, local artist Melissa McDonough reconciles the relationship between painting and sculpture through the interplay of material and light. A once illusory space becomes an ever-changing physical presence of orchestrated shape and line. Translucent veils hide and reveal shifting layers, while projected light creates new, yet fleeting elements speaking to the subtleties and brevity of experience.
Artist’s Website: https://www.melissamcdonough-art.com/
Image Title: Kites of Summer, 2024
Artist: Maryam Safajoo
Title: Two Centuries of Pleas
Persian/Iranian American artist and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Maryam Safajoo explores resilience, memory, and justice through painting. Her work recounts the Baha’i community after the 1979 revolution, preserving histories that have been silenced, erased, or entrusted solely to the memories of those who endured them.
Artist’s Website: https://maryamsafajoo.art/
Image Title: Difficulty of the Journey, 2021
