Artist Talk: Sunday, June 14th, 12-1PM

Artists: Jingqi Wang Steinhiser and Nicole Schonitzer

Join us for the artist talk of our newest exhibition: Creature Reverie!

Steinhiser and Schonitzer paint worlds void of humans, populated instead by beings and animals that function as multifaceted symbols and populate worlds of internal liberation in each of their respective practices. Creature Reverie explores these worlds and their inhabitants.

Steinhiser, having lived a nomadic life in China, Russia, Mongolia, South Korea, and the USA, investigates the animal body as a traditional and modern symbol across these varied settings.

In her most recent works, she turns toward the concept of “home”: not as a physical shelter or fixed geographical location, but as an imagined psychological space shaped by memory, displacement, and inner world-building. In my recent paintings, houses emerge insistently and in shifting states: interior and exterior collapse into one another; houses tilt, fall, float, dissolve, or rest on clouds; they…