Architectonics - Spring 2025

This group art exhibition and night of sound, explores the architectures of care, with music by @xykels and curation by @kolyashields !“Architectonics” traverses the infrastructural, and political-economic context of all art-making, while simultaneously signaling that physical art objects have a tenuous capacity to structure and cultural-infrastructural themselves.
Facing a second Trump term and a R.I. state legislature largely controlled by extractive corporate interests, it’s become increasingly clear we have to imagine, and organize ourselves from the ground up to form a better world. This showcase asked how artistic production engages, interrogates, and reimagines the structures around us.

Flourish in the Bramble - Spring 2024

Our next art exhibit “Flourish in the Bramble” ushers in a group showcase of mixed media works that explore growth in the prickly tangles of existence. The showcase features Jenny Brown, Cathy G. Johnson, and Jennifer Okumura.

Okumura is a current resident of @sowaboston and President of the Boston MA chapter of the “National Association of Woman Artists,” is originally from Philly. We see those Philly roots show up in Jenny’s work as she explores the themes of the relationships between humans, nature, and architecture. Jenny describes herself as a “hapa,” who thinks of art as “an objective homage to my Eastern and Western traditions and the raw architecture and sounds of the city—adding conflict, balance, and harmony to shape my work’s form and energy in my constant search for new noise and passion.”

Cathy G. Johnson is a cartoonist, illustrator, and print maker known for her dynamic and energetic drawings. Flourish in the Bramble features two of Johnson’s large scale, hand made silkscreen prints that explore animals in struggle or escape.

Jenny Brown is both an educator and artist working out of a antique paper filled studio in Olneyville. Jenny describes herself as an artist who sees the process of creating art as non-linear, “I find that I experience the past, present, and future lives of my subjects all simultaneously. The use of layered antique collage, alongside elements of painting & drawing, provides the building blocks for studying and illustrating the complexities of what was, what is, and what could be.” We see a whimsical world created by Brown’s artwork that showcases a masterful building of mixed materials to match the complexities found our relationship to the natural world.

Catharsis - Fall 2021

CATHARSIS//
Our Shadows are tethered to the Light, always looming,
like the blood-red lifelines of Fate,
one cannot exist without the other.
The world exists in this duality,
never more,
never less.
Unravel all your constructs,
let go of the burdens that lie out of your control.
The thick of darkness will always seep in.. let it choke you,
so you remember what it feels like to breathe.
Reach up,
reach out,
the darkness may pull you back but it also pushes you forward,
thrusting you into discomfort
to remember comfort,
bringing you down so you can find
the energy within yourself to come back up.
Reach up,
reach out,
these strings will soon unravel.

Soyoon Hia Cha aka SOYOMYOYO was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, raised in Seoul, Korea and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Photography from Lesley University in Cambridge in 2013, and her MFA with concentrations in Video, Sculpture, and Installation from the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2016.

Soyoon means a “bright light” in Korean. With every light, there lies a shadow, and it is within the shadows Soyoon’s affinities lay. There is polarity in everything and beauty can also be found in the decay, the broken, and the damaged. She is inspired by and appreciates what is overlooked and corroded by time, recognizing and embracing her demons to create work that reflects the mania within and the Shadow that is ever present.

Collective Memory - Spring 2021

Our art exhibition “Collective Memory” features works from artists and collectives Binch Press, Queer Futures, Print Aint Dead, and Queer Archive Work, alongside other local efforts such as the Solastalgia zine by Sara Inacio and Adrian Cato (pictured above).