Show & Tell: Irene Nelson & Nancy Selvin

Show & Tell: Irene Nelson & Nancy Selvin October 8 – November 15, 2026 NY2CA Gallery presents Show & Tell, an exhibition of new work by Irene Nelson and Nancy Selvin. Bringing together abstract painting and ceramic sculpture, the exhibition creates a dialogue between surface and form, intuition and intention, memory and material. Irene Nelson’s abstract paintings emerge from the thin and shifting line between memory and imagination. Working through color, gesture, layering, and intuitive mark-making, Nelson approaches painting as an open-ended process of discovery. Her work draws upon sensations, fragments, and impressions that resist fixed interpretation, allowing meaning to develop gradually through the act of looking. Nancy Selvin’s ceramic practice is rooted in an ongoing exploration of the vessel. Moving between sculpture, drawing, architecture, and functional form, Selvin considers the vessel as both a physical object and a conceptual structure. Her work expands the language of ceramics through experimentation with shape, surface, scale, and the expressive possibilities of clay. Although their materials and methods differ, both artists share a deep commitment to process, curiosity, and discovery. Show & Tell brings their practices into conversation, inviting viewers to consider what objects and images reveal, what they hold, and what remains just beyond explanation. On view October 8 through November 15, 2026 NY2CA Gallery 617 First Street, Benicia, California