Opening Reception: Friday, October 3, 6-9PM
In the Main Gallery: Hadley K Conner and Paige L. Morris
In the Cafe: “Stay Composed” Paintings by Megan Dardis
Hadley K Conner: Now Voyager
Now Voyager is a series of photographs and photo-based mixed media pieces that utilize travel as a metaphor for reflection, choice, change, transition and evolution. Autobiographical in some cases, the work echoes the sentiments of the many women in the artist’s life in various stages of their individual journeys. Hadley K Conner is a Cleveland-based artist, musician and educator. She holds a BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art and a MAAE from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Working almost exclusively with film and traditional photographic materials, Hadley has been showing work both locally and regionally for over 35 years.
Paige L. Morris: Sad Little Problem
Sad Little Problem reimagines everyday rituals and objects as sites of intimacy, satire, and resistance. Through glass sculptures, fountains, hydroponics, and assemblage, the work evokes the nostalgic absurdity of mall fountains while staging cycles of growth, decay, and repair. Drawing from personal experience, Morris reframes the everyday as a space for tenderness, grief, and reflection, insisting on resistance through care and reimagined systems of connection. Paige L. Morris is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. Building on her foundation in glass, her craft functions as a cathartic tool for questioning power and desire by disassembling and reassembling meaning within materials to create multidisciplinary installations. Morris holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA from Tyler School of Art + Architecture where she serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor.
In the Cafe: Megan Dardis Stay Composed
Stay Composed is a presentation of abstract paintings by Megan Dardis. The work on view explores notions of female identity, motherhood, and self expression in opposition to societal norms and the expectations placed on women. This body of work serves as an act of defiance, pushing back at the current political climate that is attacking the rights and expression of women. Megan Dardis is an abstract artist working in Cleveland, Ohio. In her highly abstract work emotions are transformed into pigment and gesture, capturing the in-between transient states of being. Her work grabs hold of intangible and fleeting moments, capturing them in their constant transformation, freezing them forever into a state of always becoming.
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