A three-column gallery post
still utopia: broken links is an exhibit at Gallery MC in New York City for the month of January til February 11th, 2026. 24 participating artists exhibit their work and create a collective “Infinitive Quilt” inspired by the Surrealist game of the “Exquisite Corpse”. Each artwork adds to a living archive, where images flow, intersect, and evolve beyond traditional boundaries.
The 24 artists also connect the loose ends of the multiple narratives with the display of their artworks together.
I am pleased to participate in this collective sharing.
The participating artists are:
Aga Ousseinov, Jean Weissglass, Michel Kanter, Predrag Dimitrijevic, David Dixon, Gorazd Poposki Gwanael Kerlidou, Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny, Noah Loesberg, Deanna Lee, Tricia Keightley, Daniel Davidson, Jennifer Nuss, Nils Karsten, Steve DeFrank, Malte Saenger, Derick Melander, Ray Oglesby Simonetta Moro, Rebecca Hackemann, Brian Miller, Yohanna M. Roa, Alice Garik, Heide Fasnacht
These are collage works of negatives of photographed tattoos with negatives of flora and fauna. To make the camera-less negatives, I project a small object, a flower or a piece of seaweed, for example, onto negative film with my enlarger. I photograph people’s tattoos with a 4X5” camera and enlarge these negatives onto larger film also in the darkroom.
With the flora and fauna, I do not aim to produce cliche images, but to allow the shapes to form, both in focus and out of focus. It is a process of discovery.
Once I design the piece I wish to create, using multiple negatives of tattoos with negatives of flora and fauna, I paint the palladium emulsion on the hand made translucent Japanese gampi paper. Once the emulsion has dried, I place the negatives on it and top with glass. Placed in the sun, it can take minutes in the summer and even hours in the winter for the image to form.
Depending on my ideas for each work, I may expose the work again with other negatives or paint it with water colors. Each unique work is process driven. At each stage I decide how the work is communicating.