My Practice is an ongoing inquiry into the spiritual, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Black identity. Through photography, textile, and sculptural work. I examine the embodiment of memory and the Sacred, anchored in Senegalese traditions and my affiliation with the Baye Fall Sufi order. I approach art-making as an act of spiritu
My Practice is an ongoing inquiry into the spiritual, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Black identity. Through photography, textile, and sculptural work. I examine the embodiment of memory and the Sacred, anchored in Senegalese traditions and my affiliation with the Baye Fall Sufi order. I approach art-making as an act of spiritual harvesting-nurturing and transmitting cultural wisdom while reconfiguring the visual language of Black existence. Themes such as migration, faith, and diasporic identity reoccure in my work. At the core of my practice is an advocacy for visual literacy, love, and compassion as tools for building consciousness and cultural continuity, while exploring how cultural and spiritual practices are preserved, transformed, and expressed in new geographies.
Karla Funderburk
Michael Viglietta
Karla Funderburk
My art practice, my purpose and my intention, revolves around my exploration, evaluation and expanding perception of our environment and our interconnectedness to the multi-verse we inhabit. I have always been fascinated with nature, science and our ever expanding comprehension of the laws of nature, as we discover more understanding of
My art practice, my purpose and my intention, revolves around my exploration, evaluation and expanding perception of our environment and our interconnectedness to the multi-verse we inhabit. I have always been fascinated with nature, science and our ever expanding comprehension of the laws of nature, as we discover more understanding of the universe as a whole. As an example when String Theory was discovered, then the M-Theory, and the simultaneity of Multiple Universes.
My mixed media sculptures are influenced and respond to these theories of interconnectedness. Particularly, the Law of the Conservation of Energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed only transformed. My inspiration stems from this truth that we are all co-creators of all that exists, everyone and everything consisting of that same matter, that energy, transforming and redefining ourselves and our multiverse. The language in my artwork and in my life expresses our process of co-creation and co-existence as we share that same one breath, that same ONE MATTER.
photo credit: Isabella Mancebo
Michael Viglietta
Michael Viglietta
Michael Viglietta
Pressure, erosion, and marking making are all techniques I employ to create a visual language in my paintings. They feel alive to me, with endless possibilities for change and growth. By layering, removing, scraping, and thickening of various materials and mediums, my methods, my processes are like that of an archaeologist, excavating,
Pressure, erosion, and marking making are all techniques I employ to create a visual language in my paintings. They feel alive to me, with endless possibilities for change and growth. By layering, removing, scraping, and thickening of various materials and mediums, my methods, my processes are like that of an archaeologist, excavating, and exploring the canvases. Surprised along the way by the reaction of the materials and the discovery of unique artifacts. My artworks are a direct response to the world around me. Driven by frustration, joy, courage, shame, fear, and a hundred other variables. Each works have played a part in comforting or explaining something that I could not reconcile.
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events
Transcending Matter
Milo Harvey
My camera is my confidante, my mechanical partner with whom I share my most
treacherous desires and delicate fantasies, and who, in turn, helps me make my innermost worlds appear undeniably real to the eyes of others. As a transsexual man, my own image has often been a fleeting thing, constantly in flux, something that didn’t always make sense to me. I became enraptured with photography’s ability to turn “who I was” into something endlessly malleable yet definitive. My own image remains a documentation; pure potential of the self, no roadblocks, no dead ends, endless possibility in identity, in image, in character. I continue to photograph in
an effort to parse through each facet of myself, my body, my yearnings, and my masculine performances. Through investigating and realizing my physical encounters with my own transsexual maleness and queerness, personal traumas, and sense of family and belonging, my
work serves as a testimony to my Self, my friends, my lovers, and all who may wish to introspect alongside me.
Transcending Matter
Opening Reception: August 17, 2025 4-8PM
Artist Talk: August 31, 2025 2-4PM
Closing Reception: Sept. 14, 2025 4-6 pm
Evolving Matter
Craig Wcislo
After an immersive journey in ceramics, I ventured into the commercial creative realm for 45 years. Growing up with rocket scientist parents in the 50s and 60s, my imagination was steeped in the wonder of science fiction and the mystery of alternative life forms—pondering how existence might evolve along divergent paths under identical conditions. Clay, with its fluid malleability, becomes the conduit for my subconscious to an expansive universe of possibilities.
Each piece emerges not just from vivid, fevered dreams but as milestones in an ongoing spectrum of personal growth, reflecting both an inward evolution and an outward dialogue with the ever-shifting tapestry of the world around us.
