Stillness

Stillness brings together new work by Sonja Sweterlitsch and Lynne Feinberg. On view in the main and front galleries, the exhibition considers what happens when attention slows down long enough to notice what is in motion. Stillness is not quiet. It is not empty. It is the moment where something becomes visible.

In the main gallery, Sonja Sweterlitsch presents a new body of artwork that marks a shift in her artistic process. Known for her tightly rendered portraits, Sweterlitsch steps outside the figure and into landscape, loosening her hand without abandoning her discipline. These paintings hold light just before it disappears. Her process remains rooted in observation and structure. Each painting begins with a staged photograph, then a drawing, then an underpainting built from burnt sienna, burnt umber, and titanium white. Color is layered slowly, dark to light, until shapes emerge. What has changed is not the rigor, but the permission. Sweterlitsch allows atmosphere to do what portrait once did, to carry presence.

Feinberg gathers scraps of wood, fragments from cabinet shops, pieces that have already lived other lives, and constructs forms that feel equally deliberate and unsettled. She works the way she draws: quickly, physically, adjusting as she goes. Shapes form. Lines extend into space. Surfaces carry marks that refuse to resolve cleanly.

But there is also something slightly off, a tilt, a shift, a break in pattern. Not as a flaw, but as recognition. The world itself is always off balance.

Stillness exists between these approaches. One artist holds light at the edge of disappearance. The other builds forms that never fully arrive. Together, they create a space where looking is active, where light, form, and structure reveal themselves gradually instead of all at once. Learn more.