Themed Not Yet, this feature brings together artists whose work inhabits the space between what has been and what is still becoming. Through a variety of mediums; assemblage, mixed media, painting, photography, beadwork, and screen-printing, these artists consider transformation as an unfinished state—one shaped by uncertainty, memory, resilience, and possibility. In addition to this concept, the open call for Not Yet was released halfway through 2026, and the work submit is 20x26” or less, playing on the 2026 theme.
Exhibitors Include: Amanda Coelho, Arielle Tesoriero, Ashley Lazarz, Chris Campbell, Edward Kai Chiu, Evan Peltzman, Jennifer Daniel, Jonathan Schimpf, Kara Wilson, Lyubava Kroll, Molly Goldfarb, Robbii Wessen & Travis Childers. Together, these artists consider whether something discarded, damaged, interrupted, or threatened can remain not yet finished.
Robbii Wessen’s meticulously constructed Foundlings give discarded objects new purpose, drawing on ideas of duality, impermanence, and the passage of time; Chris Campbell’s layered environments allow flowers, bees, honeycomb, and architectural forms to reclaim human-made surfaces, imagining nature as persistent and adaptive. Other works confront the increasingly fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world, holding both grief for what is being lost and hope for what might still be protected.
Paintings of ordinary objects transform familiar things into markers of memory, while Amanda Coelho’s contemporary realism draws on color, texture, light, and graphic precision to slow our attention and reveal beauty in the overlooked. Edward Kai Chiu’s collages layer mid-century American paper dolls with 1930s Shanghai imagery, Mahjong tiles, and porcelain iconography, placing cultural memory at a threshold between past and uncertain future: How do we dress ourselves for what comes next while carrying everything we have inherited?
Made amid a year marked by political, environmental, personal, and collective uncertainty, the works in Not Yet resist the pressure to resolve. Not Yet is ultimately an exhibition about thresholds: not the certainty of arrival, but the charged interval before it, the moment when change has begun, the future remains unwritten, and possibility is open.
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