SCAPES

Work by Jill Birschbach and Ken Minami

October 6 – November 6, 2025

Opening reception Friday, October 17, 5-8pm

Jill Birschbach is inspired by the  factory tours, power plants, and industrial landscapes of her childhood. She creates sculptures glazed with crusty, bumpy and peeling surfaces to emphasize the grittiness. The effect is both beauty and repulsion.

The sculptures frequently have exposed sections that reveal a fragile internal scaffolding—an architectural cutaway that underscores the instability and unsettling foundation of the structure.

Ken Minami attempts to create a dream-like urban landscape of strangers waiting for a train or bus, walking by restaurant windows and peering in, and or silently meditating on their own lives in the transition period between destinations .The implied emotion of these very brief moments is what he strives for. The places in the  paintings are based on real places but he eliminates, invents and adds architectural elements to enhance my compositional and narrative objectives.

Within, Without

New work by Kirin Kane

October 6 – November 6, 2025

Opening reception Friday, October 17, 5-8pm

Artist talk, Friday, November 7, 6pm

Stories using animals as their main characters abound in cultural mythology around the world. Using the connotations built up by these tales in the cultural subconscious, Kirin Kane examines the people and relationships around them as a means of adding to our collective narratives about gender, family, and cultural heritage. As a multiracial queer person in an increasingly hostile country, they mine experiences for direction on how to find or build a space where they feel at home.