2024 Members Showcase
Lauren Jade Szabo: As Above, So Below
July 13 - September 28, 2024

Opening Reception: July 13 | 2-4pm
Live performance at the reception in collaboration with dance artist Morgan Olson and vocal artist Rowan Katz

Focusing on our relationships to the environment, As Above, So Below revels in the complexity of the ever-changing hybridized landscape, skyscape and seascape. Szabo explores visual symptoms of perceived separation of humankind and nature through realist paintings and site-specific dance collaborations. The exhibition leans into a vision of interconnectedness while exploring facets of the exquisite paradox of existence, such as duality and unity in the age of late capitalism. Composed of man-made environments that are in the process of being reclaimed by the elements, her work celebrates ephemeral cycles emphasizing light and color as the divine embodied. Using juxtapositions of image and text, Szabo's work utilizes advertising techniques that reference popular culture recontextualized with environmental motives at the thematic intersection of painting, propaganda, and the American West. Szabo believes in reflecting on our environmental relations to learn about ourselves and widen our capacities for empathy. 

Film projects screened in collaboration with Lauren Godla, Kara Starkweather, Hector Jaime, Brandon Graham, Bryan and Vita Hewitt, and Jessica Swanson. 

Image Credit: Willfulness vs. Willingness, 2024. Oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist