Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 6-9 pm On view: March 26 – April 19, 2026 Textures brings together four artists working across ceramics, mixed media, photography, and painting to explore surface, process, and material presence. The exhibition highlights work that embraces tactility – where layered marks, physical gesture, and material experimentation create visual depth and sensory resonance. Through hand-built clay, mixed-media, photographic processes, and painterly surfaces, the artist’s foreground texture is not as embellishment, but as the central language of expression. Together, the works invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and consider how touch, time, and process shape both the object and the experience of seeing. Carbery Morrow - ceramics When Carbery Morrow discovered the responsiveness of clay more than twenty-five years ago, she was captivated. Carbery is drawn to hand-building techniques because of the imperfect, organic forms that emerge. Often, she starts with a slab or coil and allows the clay to guide her. Carbery’s work often takes the shape of curvy, asymmetrical, sculptural (and often functional) vessels. She also gravitates towards playful pieces, such as lopsided houses and circles. Carbery cycles between soft white clay, gritty red clay, and even grittier black clay, all stoneware. The characteristics of each clay body feed her need to grow and change. An ancient symbol of evolution, the spiral is her signature. Early on, Carbery carved a spiral out of clay. This same spiral image has evolved in her work, and she hopes it reflects an appreciation for the natural world, imparting a sense of simple joy. Marni Myers - mixed media Design and photography are two essential forces in Marni Myer’s creative process—each one feeding and challenging the other. Marni has always been attuned to the spaces around her, a sensitivity shaped by growing up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where the city’s urban grid left a lasting impression on how structure and pattern coexist in our environment. Grounded in graphic design, Marni’s photography explores her relationship with pattern, texture, and minimalism, distilling the subtle beauty of everyday moments into images that spark curiosity and invite reflection. Marni’s current work with alternative processes is an exploration of layering, both literal and conceptual. Through a tactile, hands-on approach, she’s moved away from direct botanical representation toward a softer, more painterly aesthetic where abstraction and mystery take center stage. The result is work that embraces the intangible, inviting viewers into a space of quiet discovery. Stephen Podrasky - photography Fine art photographer Stephen Podrasky is a visual storyteller who primarily uses a street photography approach to capture the moments he conceives in his imagination. After earning his BA in Fine Art Photography, he took his camera to the streets, first in Kansas City and later in Denver, focusin...
