Featuring: Sarah Beddington Mary Carlson Jennifer Coates Mira Dancy Tory Fair Linda Ganjian Heather Johnson Medrie MacPhee Adia Millett Laura Parnes Arlene Shechet Charlotta Westergren

Curated by Janet Phelps.

An exhibition of recent works in a variety of media, Somewhere Outside It presents a group of artists who examine their worlds in conceptual and experiential ways. We often make assumptions that have not been truly examined or confirmed - these artists challenge the weight of our assumptions with a wide range of works that attempt to find a way to reflect and extract the metaphysical qualities of things and distill their private experiences - as if to say, “things are not always what they seem.”

For this show, artists Sarah Beddington, Jennifer Coates, Laura Parnes and Arlene Shechet show works that embody the notion that all things are both defined and unknowable. The paintings of Charlotta Westergren and Mira Dancy along with the drawings of Medrie MacPhee invoke a world where enigmatic sensations conjure postures and landscapes alike—where instants of total awareness collide with outbursts of emotion. Tory Fair explores a visual vocabulary of sports and interiors, overlapping and confusing the simple and literal ideas that “sport” lines convey and Ode to Disappearing Smokestacks, Linda Ganjian’s fantastical landscape, uses ornamental motifs from Middle Eastern carpets and incorporates architectural elements of Long Island City’s Schwartz power plant into an ornamental carpet environment. In her series, Spaces for Contemplation, Heather Johnson uses embroidery, text, and appropriated freeway construction diagrams to explore tensions between intimacy and banality. Mary Carlson recreates a three-dimensional idealized image taken from the label of bottled water and Adia Millett provides us with a new dialogue for characters to develop and memories to resurface through dream-like images.