Opening Reception: May 8, 5–8 PM

Closing Reception: June 7, 6–8 PM

Gallery Hours, Monday/Wednesday by appointment, Friday & Saturday 12–4PM

Contact Rui at 667-786-8372 to schedule an appointment.

Curated by tenant artist Kristen Landsman.

Obscura is a three-person exhibition featuring Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Kristen Landsman, and Michael Northrup. Across distinct practices, the artists engage with images and objects that feel improperly encountered; seen out of place, removed from their intended or assumed context.

Marnie Ellen Hertzler draws from her forthcoming project FrogHollow, centered on a humanoid robot named Francis. Presented as digital and film photographs alongside on-screen text, the work traces the constructed systems behind simulated thought and emotion, sitting inside the boundary between the simulated and the felt — and what it means that the boundary is so difficult to locate.

Kristen Landsman’s work continues this investigation through broken digital cameras used as both surface and container. Sourced sexual imagery is painted directly onto the screens, where the images take on a sense of privacy despite their public origins, destabilizing the boundary between exposure and concealment.

Michael Northrup’s photographs, drawn from a decades-long archive, extend this tension. Familiar moments—once rooted in personal experience—shift when placed into public view. The images move between tenderness, humor, and unease, as viewers encounter them without the intimacy that once shaped their meaning.

Obscura frames viewership within a push and pull between permission and intrusion, where looking becomes both the premise and the problem, edging toward voyeurism.