this is a show about grief: NFS Work

this is a show about grief: Works that are Not For Sale, included in our current group exhibition. Sept. 11th - Oct. 4th
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Charlie Shih (WA)
We Belong to Each Other Zine
"This is a zine about different kinds of grief. It's about grief with the development of AI, the environment, our collective future, political violence, and personal loss. It's also about how we find our way through this grief by remembering our responsibilities and who we belong to." 

See the full zine HERE

Eleanor Starling (WA)
Heliotropic Effect
Plaster cast hand on mirror with found objects
12" x 8" x 5"

John Setzer (WA)
"Moss Only Grows Near Water" is about the loss of a friendship, storm clouds and pointed rocks alluding to the disquieting experience of seeing the true face of a friend and finding them unrecognizable. 
20"x24" work on cradlboard

"The Earth Knows You Better" is from a goddess series I did last year. This one is dedicated to Lilith and addresses some of the grief I imagine the Earth feels when observing all the ways humans could be taking better care of each other (and all of our Relatives, including the plants and animals, waterways, mountains, and sky), but refuse to."
12"x24" on cradleboard

Kati Lowe (GA)
Kati's work explores memory, absence, and the emotional residue left in the wake of loss. Working across collage, painting, and natural materials, she investigates how time is held within objects, landscapes, and bodies, drawing from Indigenous relationships to land where memory and time are understood as cyclical and layered. Through subtle distortions, voids, and fragile surfaces, her practice translates somatic experiences of grief into visual form, creating spaces where presence and disappearance quietly coexist.
The Land Keeps His Seat, mixed media 24" x 24" x 5"

Michelle Guerra (TX)
Sullen Girl
Pacific Ocean on Ruby Beach - Digital Photography, Canon, 1/320 f/ 3.5
"I believe that an image can talk and most importantly this quotes the lyrics from Sullen Girl by Fiona Apple: "...But they don't know that I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea.  He washed me ashore and he took my pearl and left an empty shell of me..."
This image is about loss of safety. A loss of light and innocence. It's about a loss of happiness and ignorance. It's about a deep loss of trust."

Nat Miller (WA)
My Body is a Temple Ruin "is a meditation on trauma, grief, and the way our mortal vessels break down over time. The work also calls upon religious imagery and rituals to imagine a new way to process, grieve, purge, and confess. The altar is a space offering where viewers can process, grieve, and leave something painful behind."
16" x 12" x 3.5" Paper porcelain, underglaze, silver luster, stainless steel chain
**Commissions available to create a similar piece, please contact the gallery

Sarah Bouma (CO)
https://www.sarahbouma.com/
The Ones Who Stay With Us: 36" x 42" oil on canvas
"Just as irises and other perennials return each spring after withering away, the spirit of those we love is never gone, only transformed. Alive in our hearts and in the mystery that follows. This work also honors the people who stand beside us in the depths of grief, reminding us that we are never alone. Their love is what blooms around us when we feel like grief will consume us.
This oil painting is dedicated to my dad, Joe, who will forever be in my heart. It is also for my friends and family who held me along the way during his battle with cancer and after his passing. Lastly, it is for the irises I fell in love with at the Denver Botanic Gardens that remind me that even amidst the depths of grief, beauty can flourish."

Yehonatan Moshe (IS)
Online Portfolio
"The "Heart-to-Heart Stethoscope" serves as a memorial and commemorative object for an individual who had an attentive heart to the pain and concerns of their loved ones. This stethoscope does not refer to the listening of the ear, but rather to the listening of the heart. Therefore, the standard earpieces of a medical stethoscope are replaced by a funnel-like ceramic diaphragm representing the heart of the departed, which received the outpouring of their loved ones' hearts.
The stethoscope functions as a decorative wall-mounted object, designed to allow easy removal from the wall to perform a gesture of memory and comfort. In this gesture, the user symbolically places the ceramic diaphragm over the deceased's heart and recalls the departed's attentive listening to their inner feelings."
Large diaphragm: 11.5 cm x 5 cm, Small diaphragm: 4 cm x 2.2 cm, Total cord length: 24 cm.



Zichun Zhao (Beijing / Baltimore)
To Live With Another Person, mixed media on panel, 8" x 8"
"My paintings originate from my experience of the COVID-19 lockdown, when I was confined to my apartment in Beijing and its surrounding neighborhoods. They evoke specific moods and sensations through images of varying degrees of recognizability. Their colors and surfaces come from urban nightscapes and domestic interiors: apartment buildings, illuminated windows, curtains, the sky at 3 a.m., weeping willows, and summer storms."