October 21 - November 14, 2025
Reception: October 22, 5-7pm.
This two person exhibition features artworks made during the sabbaticals of faculty members Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy.
Peter Cardone Artist Statement:
These color photographs of water, land, and sky explore the relationships of different places across distance and elevation. Each body of water is framed vertically according to its elevation above sea level, referencing a standard that operates across all bodies of water. The photographs simultaneously generate feelings of presence and absence. Standing by the water, I feel grounded in a particular place and time. Yet, as I look out, I am untethered from the present, tracing the water’s path to memories of other lakes, oceans, places, and people.
Christopher McEvoy Artist Statement:
This is what I'm after: paintings that make you question what you're seeing, that feel simultaneously like falling apart and coming together, that capture how strange and slippery our grasp on reality has become.
My work inhabits the gap between perception and imagination—the unsettling territory where certainty evaporates. I begin by engaging my surroundings through drawing, focusing on places that hold personal significance. But these aren't straightforward documentations. Through a continuous process of manipulation—pulling images apart, layering marks and collaging fragments —I push until something more truthful than direct observation emerges.
I find it exciting when my process becomes a feedback loop—abstractions drawn from reality transform how I see, generating new abstractions in turn. Each painting acknowledges what we already know but rarely admit: that every image we encounter is already filtered, manipulated, constructed. In a world where visual mediation is inescapable, honest observation recognizes that our reality is in fact a distillation of filtered truths.
These aren't paintings about confusion but consciousness. In fractured moments and invented landscapes, I witness my own daily negotiations with meaning—the constant work of assembling coherence from fragments. By making this invisible process visible, my work offers a different kind of clarity: not the promise of fixed meaning, but the liberation found in accepting that all seeing is an act of creation.
