Arrested Thresholds
Taiji Terasaki
07/08/2026 - 08/02/2026
Arrested Thresholds
These works emerge from an ongoing fascination with the ways matter organizes itself. Working with pigments, minerals, salts, and chemical reactions, I create conditions in which materials can accumulate, crystallize, dissolve, and transform. Rather than depicting a landscape or a biological form directly, the paintings develop through processes that parallel those found throughout nature.
The title Arrested Thresholds refers to moments suspended between states of becoming. A threshold is a point of transition—a place where one condition gives way to another. Lava cools into stone. Minerals crystallize from solution. Cells regenerate after injury. Ecosystems recover following disturbance. Yet these processes are never fixed or guaranteed. Growth may stall, healing may remain incomplete, and formation may move toward dissolution.
Over time I began to notice striking similarities between geological formations and physiological structures. River systems resemble vascular networks. Volcanic landscapes echo cellular terrains. Crystalline deposits appear at once constructive and destructive. The same forces that shape mountains, coastlines, and mineral formations seem to operate within our own bodies.
Created during a period of reflection on health, regeneration, and resilience, these works consider the possibility that landscape and physiology are not separate domains, but manifestations of shared processes unfolding across different scales. The paintings occupy a space between macrocosm and microcosm, geology and biology, growth and decay.
I am interested in the moment before a form resolves into certainty—the point at which multiple futures remain possible. In that suspended condition, matter reveals itself not as static substance, but as an active participant in continual transformation.
Arrested Thresholds invites viewers to encounter these states of emergence and instability, and to consider whether the forces shaping the world around us may also be shaping the world within us.
Black Body Radiation
\Xayvier Haughton
07/08/2026 - 08/02/2026
Black Body Radiation
Black Body Radiation is an exhibition that explores the unseen energies, spiritual frequencies, and ancestral knowledge that reside within Black life. Drawing from Obeah and Afro-Caribbean traditions, the exhibition examines the body as a site of memory, transformation, protection, and sacred power. Here, the body is understood not merely as a physical form but as a vessel through which histories, spirits, and cultural knowledge continue to move across generations.
Borrowing its title from the scientific phenomenon of black-body radiation, the process by which an object absorbs and emits energy, the exhibition reimagines Blackness as a source of illumination rather than absence. The works presented investigate the ways Black bodies radiate presence, carrying traces of ancestral experience that persist despite displacement, colonial violence, and cultural erasure.
Through painting, sculpture, installation, and ritual-inflected practices, Black Body Radiation engages the visible and invisible forces that shape contemporary Black existence. Light, shadow, materiality, and symbolism become vehicles for exploring the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds, revealing how ancestral energies continue to inform identity, community, and resistance.
At its core, the exhibition is an invitation to consider Blackness as an active and generative force one that continuously emits knowledge, creativity, and spiritual power. Black Body Radiation proposes that what cannot always be seen can nevertheless be felt, transmitted, and remembered, radiating across bodies, histories, and time itself.
