2 Gather
September 18 – October 16, 20212 Gather was a group exhibition of eighteen artists brought together by the idea of community as an antidote to despondency. We followed the artist’s rhizomatic connections to one another and selected works that questioned prevailing cultural narratives through lived experience. Using varied methods and techniques, these paintings explore the dynamic tethers that comprise our most intimate relationships and re-envision existing narrative forms within an increasingly destabilized cultural context.
This exhibition highlights the power of mark-making and line to carry sensibility, attitude, and emotion. Confident, tenuous, delicate, direct, shaky, bold, and messy, these works collectively illustrate a psychological space of shared vulnerability. By focusing on the individual ways that artists look lovingly at one another, 2 Gather resists the social fractures brought on by a hypermediated present and fosters the spirit of interdependence, kinship, and empathy that binds our community.
With love,
Whit, Matt, Polina
ARTISTS:
Kelly Bjork
Kadar Brock
Warren Dykeman
Kati Gegenheimer
Mark Gibson
Whitney Harris
Fay Jones
Matt Jones
Staver Klitgaard
Judy Koo
Jeremy Lawson
Keisha Prioleau-Martin
Ruth Rodriguez
Kristina Schmidt
Sydney Shavers
Polina Tereshina
Noelle Velez
Eric Wiley
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a558c6eddca4571240d682618b33041067c012e5e3a9614ebe65caf097151824/09242021-2-Gather--10.jpg)
![Kati Gegenheimer | Judy Koo | Fay Jones](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/529f55ea17f2fd38e2d06a8721b8a3dee7a2518c7d5d801c42cb0e731a6890bd/09242021-2-Gather--3B.jpg)
![Fay Jones, Weighted Ghosts, 2021, Acrylic and collage on paper, polyptych Each sheet 30 X 22 in. Courtesy of James Harris Gallery (sold)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d884acb676f36d26343f6b25d0b2951b45f27dedcf6089b1a55e6116377219d/Weighted-Ghosts-Web.jpg)
![Eric Wiley | Kati Gegenheimer](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca809221ae1b97b9df02706c5b0ca801558f303f229246798d8f4c476671d22/09242021-2-Gather--12.jpg)
![Whitney Harris | Keisha Prioleau-Martin | Warren Dykeman](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/225205bb91f747f6b19c880c87c484f442b22479ffe3c1824ac4a07685d46a13/09242021-2-Gather--4.jpg)
![Keisha Prioleau-Martin | Warren Dykeman | Polina Tereshina](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a054b1d088139516e86a168b3edfcd268bf395535b59a8299b1fe097f3da34a/09242021-2-Gather--5.jpg)
![Keisha Prioleau-Martin, Laying in Forming Grass, 2021, Acrylic on linen 11 x 14 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fdc30e529bb08f2b7251fe0dda3cd14e9bdc88f3180fe7d80eab2ddef6aae80/Prioleau-Martin1.jpg)
![Staver Klitgaard, It just sucks ya know, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6b55417c03fcd850e5cd29dcfc344b497adc8035addcad2563d7f529ff69b2a/Klitgaard.jpg)
![Polina Tereshina | Staver Klitgaard | Mark Thomas Gibson](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1df7cd8912e876354a53b3452610786825528a51095c45000913dd8b1d960b1d/09242021-2-Gather--2.jpg)
![Mark Thomas Gibson, He Had The Most Beautiful Hair, 2021, Ink on paper, 22 x 30 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1694c5bae47f711da1698efcf43a2e57d82743c2d3825fa1a4450708cb5ff58/Gibson.jpg)
![Matt Jones, A coin with a cup, 2021, Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4aa380424e2282e464833d321f3a4fd656559a31c6c89b475476d5822a56422/MattJones1.jpg)
![Noelle Velez | Jeremy Lawson | Matt Jones](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaf38cf91351667bc5e9f495fc6a908c00e1ce92aa71370ac77c0e0d309460f4/09242021-2-Gather--1.jpg)
![Jeremy Lawson, Lazarus, 2021, Oil on paper, 38 x 51 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e7ca460c2b53df6410cf6aed53e21d29d1395776939f641640e726429e92f8b/Lawson2-.jpg)
![Sydney Shavers | Kadar Brock | Ruth Rodriguez](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1756746c3f98c567e55741e7e0bc3ef0983a290a1a502dbcd686052a2b78ae58/09242021-2-Gather--11.jpg)
![Kristina Schmidt | Kelly Bjork](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64672e9dbd384464c6b5c4fd99aa18207bfd4a99aa76ac3e0646a315a44bff0b/09242021-2-Gather--6.jpg)