The exhibition will feature recent work by artists Janet Loren Hill and Andrew Casto. Hill’s shaped paintings present surreal characters moving through complex environments, tracing various global histories of coercion, labor, and the potential for rupture.

Casto’s recent work—whose formal language is based on a material study of geological processes translated into ceramic and mixed-media vessel forms—explores the connection between “macrocosmic” environmental change and interruptions in our often routine existence.

Visually, their work plays both against and with each other: painting vs. ceramic, large vs. small scale, use of texture, the absurd and the sublime, decadent color, and sometimes unnerving forms. Contextually, they share a use of humor and absurdity, varied references to the body, and commentary on our world.