October: Hannah Koeske & Margot Casstevens
EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, October 3rd, 2025 – Saturday, November 1st, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: 1st Friday Reception, Friday, October 3rd, 2025, 5:00 – 8:00, free and open to the public
GALLERY HOURS: Fridays 12:00 – 8:00 PM, except day of exhibit opening: Saturdays 12:00 – 8:00 PM
EAST GALLERY: Hannah Koeske, Family Stories
Artist Statement: These drawings and paintings were mostly made within the last 2-3 years. They are new work, related to older pieces, but representing periods when I was trying new things in addition to building on existing practice. They reflect the challenges of integrating into a new life, forging a future based on shared values, and processing the present in light of the past, which has trauma, love, and preoccupations that cast a long shadow. Related themes, which currently enter my work, include childhood trauma, grief, abuse, love, and development of a present by integrating dark and high, dark and light.
Hannah Koeske’s Biography: These drawings and paintings were mostly made within the last 2-3 years. They are new work, related to older pieces, but representing periods when I was trying new things in addition to building on existing practice. They reflect the challenges of integrating into a new life, and processing the present in light of the past, which has trauma, love, and preoccupations that cast a long shadow. Related themes, which currently enter my work, include childhood trauma, grief, love, and development of a present by integrating dark and high, dark and light. They explore what is in the space between imagination and realism. My work imagines that a philosophical, existential, or substantive world exists beyond what is visible. My work includes spiritual themes; one of which because painting helps me understand what exists.
WEST GALLERY: MARGOT CASSTEVENS, “Now We May Begin”
Artist Statement: This show is a call for stewardship and a moment of calm in the whirlwind that is our current social-political sh*tshow. The exhibit will feature video projected onto porcelain panels surrounded by myriad porcelain cups/stones/water.
Margot Casstevens’ Biography: MFA BFA: my studio is based in the Inland Northwest where I create through drawing, sculpture, experimental printmaking and tiny films.
