Upcoming Exhibitions

Whitney Sage (Naperville, IL), Homesickness Series, Portraits of Home and Domestic Fragments

Nicholas Hill (Granville, OH), Pandemic Portrait Drawings

March 9 – April 11

Whitney Sage’s acrylic, ink and gouache drawings connect to issues of absence, loss and memory as related to disappearing homeland. The work is inspired by the artist’s own personal roots and focus on the sprawling midwestern neighborhoods of Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan. Through an incomplete picture provided by voided negative shapes, empty lots and incomplete artifacts on display, viewers are invited to consider the collective loss of identity, memory and belonging experienced in shrinking midwestern communities.

Nicholas Hill’s series, Pandemic Portrait Drawings, aim to bring a sense of humanity back to our collective memories of the pandemic five years on. Hill’s drawings were made in real time throughout the course of the covid crisis, on related pages from the New York Times. Using an Ink and Brush technique, Hill combed news photos for passersby and unintended subjects, creating portraits from these “found” faces. The portraits remind the viewer that each loss was and is a personal tragedy.

Captions, left to right: Whitney Sage, 230 Pasadena Street, Portraits of Home Series, 2022, acrylic ink on aquabord panel; Nicholas Hill, Pandemic Portraits: Panel V, 2022, ink on newspaper

Nathaniel Foley (Indianapolis, IN), Flight of Obscurity

Mina Kim (Fort Lee, NJ), Drawings

April 20 – May 23

In his exhibition, Flight of Obscurity, Nathaniel Foley communicates concepts rooted in aviation history through a visual language that references both travel and warfare. With hand fabricated sculptures in an immersive installation, Foley’s work communicates tension between grace and imminent danger.

Mina Kim’s work blends drawing and sculpture using a meditative practice of bending and binding materials together. Echoing rythms that reference Eastern thought where repeated action trains both body and spirit, Kim’s work moves between two and three dimensions. Their installations use everyday materials like twist ties and wire, and then shift into paintings and drawings, dissolving boundaries between technology and tradition.

Captions, left to right: Nathaniel Foley, F-86 Sabre, 2021, Aluminum, Fabric, Wood, String, Clecos, Jack; Mina Kim, Rational Draft, 2025, oil on linen, steel wire, twist ties, acrylic medium

32nd Annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition

June 8 – July 18

Showcasing both contemporary and traditional approaches to landscape art, The View is an annual, juried exhibition open to Ohio artists working in any medium. Among the topics explored are nature, environmental themes and world issues. Artist awards totaling $1,100 will be selected by the juror and gallery visitors will select a People’s Choice Award made possible through the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund.

Closing Reception: July 18 from 1 – 3 p.m.

Image caption: Installation View, 31st Annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition, 2025

20th Annual HWD Juried Sculpture Exhibition

Aug. 3 – Sept. 12

HWD (Height, Width, Depth) is an annual, juried exhibition of three-dimensional work, featuring sculptors in any medium from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia. $1,600 in artist awards will be selected by the juror including the Virginia Krause Hess award for Excellence in Sculptural Art. In addition to the juror’s awards, three $100 People’s Choice Awards will be presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund at the conclusion of the exhibition.

Closing Reception: Sept. 12 from 1 – 3 p.m.

Image Caption: Installation view of the 19th Annual HWD Juried Sculpture Exhibition

NADIA HUGGINS (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), CORAL & ASH

TRENT DAVIS BAILEY (Hotchkiss, CO), THE NORTH FORK

Fotofocus Biennial 2026, The Long View

September 28 – November 7

Nadia Huggins’ series of photographs Coral & Ash captures moments that hint at larger environmental change. Huggins has built a body of work that is characterized by her observation of and interest in the everyday. Her work merges documentary and conceptual practices, which explore ecology, belonging, identity, and memory focused on re-presenting Caribbean landscapes and the sea. The series Coral & Ash is partly a response to the La Soufrière volcanic eruption in St. Vincent, where the artist lives, and is also a narrative of the Caribbean landscape and Caribbean people intertwined. Dr. Ana Dopico, the Director of the Hemispheric Institute reflects that Huggins’ work “refuses what I've called the ‘photographic capture’ of places and subjects that conform to the visual regimes of empire and tourism. The images are not made to please, though they are stunning, they are made, it seems to me, to reveal a deep political relation to place, to self, to race, to climate.”

In his photography series, The North Fork, Trent Davis Bailey intertwines his own childhood memories with images and moments from family farms on Colorado’s Western Slope. The title, The North Fork, comes from the name locals use to broadly describe the agrarian valley in which they live, which is situated on Colorado's Western slope and irrigated by the North Fork of the Gunnison River. In addition to The North Fork series, Bailey will exhibit a selection of archival photographs depicting the same region, including prints by FSA photographers Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein and lesser-known photographers whose prints are held in the archives at a local historical society — weaving together past and present. Suggesting the arc of history in the region as well as the artist’s long-standing connection with the place, this exhibition will show how Bailey’s photographs connect with a photographic and historic lineage while also serving as a tool for self-discovery.

FotoFocus, the nonprofit arts organization dedicated to creating dialogue between contemporary lens-based art and the history of photography, is pleased to announce the return of the FotoFocus Biennial with its eighth edition: The Long View. Taking place in October 2026, the month-long celebration of lens-based art will consider aspects of time and perspective in photography and film, as well as how these mediums shape our understanding of the world.

Sally Blair (Chicago, IL)

James Terrell (Washington, D.C.)

November 23 – January 2, 2027

Sally Blair’s large-scale paintings are inspired by quantum phenomena, inviting viewers to engage with unseen aspects of the universe. Her paintings combine science and divinity, celebrating the deep symmetries found in the laws of nature.

James Terrell’s series of collages use color blocking with fabric, paper and paint to interlock memory, life experience and spiritual existence. Referencing stained glass, op art, and modern geometries, the viewer is encouraged to search for the image within the composition. Hinting at multiple planes of existence with physical layers and patterns, Terrell’s work is an exploration of the seen and unseen and asks the viewer to give time to looking and letting the image unfold.

Captions, left to right; Sally Blair, Untitled, 2023, oil on panel; James Terrell, I Am, 2024, paper, fabric & acrylic paint