CHASM: Intuition, Risk, and Certainty

Opening Reception: Sept 12, 2025, 5:30-8:00 (early entry at 5:00 for friends and partners)

CHASM: Intuition, Risk, and Certainty is a poetic conversation between material and meaning. This exhibition, inspired by abstraction and consciousness, features the work of Helen Frederick, Madalyn Marcus, and Randi Reiss-McCormack. Though their practices differ, all three artists center around the physical act of creation, the unpredictability of materials, and the embrace of when the art “speaks back.” These artists welcome intuition and the unknown.

Frederick’s collaborative pieces are rich in symbolism and layered meaning. The textured handmade paper and her imagery evoke environmental and emotional landscapes, inviting reflection on impermanence, time, and transformation. Marcus’s rhythmic paintings translate fleeting sounds into permanent colors. Her compositions reverberate, finding balance in the tension between opposites. Reiss-McCormack creates mixed-media works that blend playfulness with sincerity. Her collages are richly layered drawings that reflect a studio practice grounded in ritual and adaptability to shifting rules and forms.

This exhibition also includes works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia. These pieces form a complex mosaic of translating the natural world into imagery. Together, the works on display invite viewers to engage intuitively, seek cross-cultural inspiration, and connect their inner experiences with the external world.

Piece info:
Helen Frederick with Chris Mona
In The Time Of Not Yet, 2024
36×30”
screen print, chine collé on custom made paper