Stiff Drinks, Soft Women

Season Office presents Stiff Drinks, Soft Women, a new body of work by KACEYKAL. The exhibition opens June 18, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. during Third Thursdays on Grand River and Warren. Season Office is located at 4892 Grand River and is open Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m.

Stiff Drinks, Soft Women is a series of nine paintings in which KACEYKAL distills the female figure into geometric essentials: saturated planes of color, hard angles, and forms that hover between abstraction and embodiment. Rendered in acrylic gouache, acrylic, and pen on watercolor paper, each work measures 9 x 12 inches.

Across the series, the martini glass appears as a deadpan motif – small, precise, and immaculately rendered within compositions that otherwise resist easy legibility. Its polish cuts against the force of the surrounding geometry, sharpening the work’s decorative, symbolic, and slightly estranged register.

KACEYKAL cites personal memory as source material, but the paintings do not resolve into confession. The figures remain present without becoming fully legible. Whatever intimacy the work holds is structural, embedded in color, proportion, and the tension between the title’s softness and the paintings’ hard-edged refusal to sentimentalize it.