STUDIOS INC | 2025: A GROUP EXHIBITION

Curated by Hannah Finnan & Alex Coffey

March 7th — May 10th, 2025

Featuring works from Studios Inc Artists-in-Residence in 2025 — including works from Kate Clements, Hadley Clark, JT Daniels, Leon Jones, Caleb Taylor, Casey Whittier, Melanie Johnson, Armin Mühsam, Peregrine Honig, and Hong Chun-Zhang.

Patron Preview & Opening Reception on Friday, March 7th, 5 – 8pm

Featured Image: “Roundup (diptych)“, each 40” W x 55″ H, Chinese ink on Italian Alcantara fabric, 2024⁣⁠

RA 2023 – 2024: CELEBRATING RECENT ACQUISTIONS TO THE STUDIOS INC RESIDENCY COLLECTION

Curated by Hannah Finnan & Alex Coffey

March 7th — April 26th, 2025

Studios.gallery — Front Gallery

View Recent Acquisitions to the Studios Inc Residency Collection from artists in residence in 2023 and 2024. Including works from Harold Smith, Kate Clements, Hadley Clark, JT Daniels, Leon Jones, Caleb Taylor, Casey Whittier, and Hong Chun-Zhang. All pieces are available to purchase in support of the Studios Inc mission to provide studio space for mid-career artists.

Featured Image: “Reprise”, JT Daniels, 40″ x 40″, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2024

Exhibition Runs February 5th – March 2nd

Gallery Hours: Noon — 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday

A collection of sixteen oil paintings that bridges two worlds. In each piece, colors and forms
blend cubism and surrealism to show life between Mexico and the United States.
The collection presents portraits, landscapes, and moments that capture daily life from two
perspectives. The artist uses vivid colors and geometric shapes to tell simple yet meaningful
stories about identity and memory.

Like a map of experiences, each work marks a moment where cultures meet. Colors build
bridges between past and present, between traditional and new. These are not just
paintings; they are windows showing what living between two countries is like.
The works are organized to guide visitors through different spaces and moments. Each
room shows a part of this story: portraits look at us, landscapes take us to familiar places,
and everyday scenes remind us that art lives in simplicity.

In these sixteen works, colors tell stories we can all understand, no matter where we come
from.

Born in Poncitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, Mauricio Zúñiga carries the cultural richness rooted in his
homeland since moving to Chicago at the young age of 13. He later settled in Kansas City,
where he built a successful artistic career. Known among his friends as “Mo,” Zúñiga
embodies the fusion of dreams and Mexican charm within his being. From childhood, he has
stood out as a creative spirit with a keen eye for beauty and distinction.

y paintings have always been about landscape. Over the years the work has changed, both in content and imagery. One series of paintings leads to another. A gradual refinement from vast panoramas to the specific. For the past six years my paintings have been based on gardens. Gardens are the “tended to” aspects of landscape. The space, the color, shape, texture and space are key elements in landscape and in my work.

The primary influence of my work comes from a philosophy, which suggests the primacy of a personal response and the interpretation rather than the copy of nature. The paintings straddle the line between abstraction and realism, what is seen and what is imagined. This sensibility, both aesthetically and philosophically, expressed in this duality of approaches is an interpretive, personal response to the visual world.

-Fred Nelson

Fred Nelson’s paintings are human scale, intimate, contemplative, and poetic. He builds them through multiple layers of paint that resonate with the layers one finds in nature. Close examination reveals color subtly shining under or beside other unexpected color shapes, creating atmosphere, space and light. In addition, the visual movement of the paintings echoes the way one physically moves through the landscape. Nelson’s paintings occupy that territory between recognizable imagery and abstraction, hovering back and forth, each quality strengthening the other.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Colleen Bailey

Zen Echo

Lucy Hodges

Sophia Gaeun Lee

Angela Lim

Lu Lu

Lucas Nguyen

Yash Singh

Thanat Singhirunnusorn

There exists a genetic predisposition to perfect pitch caused by the prevalence of tonal language in many Asian cultures. However, the societal expectation for English fluency overwhelms that internal resonance. While the skill is exercised through music lessons and familial translation, the root of the sound is lost to an environment that sees little use for the ability day-to-day. With pressures to conform and, at times, performing to forget, how does one create harmony from opposing voices? Dissonance expresses the conflict Asians in America experience between the sounds they live and the ones they leave behind.