Curated by Zoë Elena Moldenhauer, Under Negotiation brings together six artists working across drawing, ceramics, painting, fiber, collage, and sculpture to examine the ongoing processes of adaptation, transformation, and exchange. Rather than presenting negotiation as a singular act, the exhibition reveals it as a continual condition — between material and maker, memory and erasure, visibility and concealment, gravity and balance, growth and decay, identity and belonging.

Through works that range from intimate, process-driven objects to poetic explorations of landscape, language, and myth, the exhibition invites viewers to consider negotiation not as compromise, but as an essential force shaping both artistic practice and everyday life.

Under Negotiation is on view at The Project Space from July 23 through August 23, and the opening reception will be held in conjunction with Whipple’s celebration on Friday, July 24, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Works and installation images will also be available on Artsy.

The gallery will be open for its usual hours (Thursdays through Sundays, noon to 6 p.m.) through July 26. In August, the gallery will be open on Saturdays and Sundays only from noon to 6 p.m. through August 23.

Please note there is a steep staircase to access this area.

About the Artists

Lynn Basa’s ceramic sculptures are feral, yet soft vessels. Her Slip pieces evoke volcanic magma that fold into palm-sized stones. A closer look reveals the delicate and careful imprint of the artist's hand to create objects that appear to be an archaeological discovery.

Susan Poirier manipulates paper, clawing and sanding the surface to create works that do not immediately read as paper. Her practice is a process of healing, layering paint to cleanse and transform material, offering viewers a moment to reflect.

Margarita Fainshtein is an archivist. Using family documents, photographs, and oral history, Fainshtein creates installations that question notions of place, identity, and erasure. Her work is an act of preservation that holds memories of her past and present.

Sam Shaffer creates stories about color. Through quick brushstrokes and slow pours of watercolor, Shaffer captures a fleeting moment of a memory or dream. Like looking at clouds that hold their shape for a moment, Shaffer’s work becomes a living, fantastical world.

Using a fictional alphabet she created, Zoë Elena Moldenhauer works between collage, printmaking, and found objects. Her alphabet is a tool for creating identity and tracing her ancestry. Her works are playful, using materials like plastic bread tags or zippers that add another absurd layer to her alphabet.

Patricia Tewes Richards blends magical realism and mythical archetypes. Through painting, Richards employs humor, tilting the familiar into the strange. Her paintings build spaces of visual wit and disarming beauty, where spirit and matter, play and danger, the past and future converge in strange harmony.

About The Project Space at Amos Eno

Under Negotiation is on view at The Project Space, Amos Eno’s experimental exhibition space in the cellar.

The gallery is open from 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. Please note there is a steep staircase to access this area.