In Joy Taylor's paintings, sparkling detail, daring composition, and luminous color reflect the power of natural forces. The paintings create a world that defies traditional still life, which seeks to isolate, tame, and order the flora of the world around us. In Joy's work, life is never still. It is exuberant, irrepressible, at times disconcerting, and even dangerous in its boldness. 

Ben Pederson's sculptural works conjure dreamlike, non-terrestrial realms populated by alien glyphs, devotional shrines, and biomorphic entities. Emerging through a deeply intuitive process, these forms channel both interior states and imagined cosmologies. With an emphasis on curiosity, Pederson's works resist resolution, instead inviting viewers into their unfolding mystery-spaces where the familiar slips into the unfamiliar, and where each flourish suggests life growing in new, otherworldly directions.