02/14/2026
We will have to close a bit early today due to family obligations. We will be open from 12-2:30 pm. Please stop by to view our current exhibit, “Letters to My Mother”, never before exhibited work by Lydia Panas!
Lydia features drawings/letters she created during a residency after her Mother passed away. Her letters show occasional words and become abstract drawings, leaving the viewer space to imagine and project their own experiences.
Her exhibited prints show a series of photographed lipstick marks she made on paper, during the residency. They transition from dark to light, the last one being almost completely invisible,
showing a small trace of color, a testament perhaps to the ephemeral nature of life, beauty and love.
In Panas’ video work, one will find women applying lipstick in a personal setting, at times going beyond the boundaries of their lips.
Panas states, “Feeling unmoored after my mother died, I began writing letters to her in the form of drawings—things I had been unable to put into words. The drawings included lipstick impressions that echoed the way women in the 1960s and ’70s pressed their lipstick onto tissue after applying it.”
This work merges writing, drawing, and personal artifacts to explore memory, loss, and the shifting line between private and public expression. In a more vulnerable and experimental direction, including video work, the artist invites the viewer to experience a broader reflection on grief, memory and what remains after loss.”
SAVE THE DATE also for a unique opportunity to witness a performance by Heather Sincavage. It will take place Friday, 2/20 at 7:30 pm. The duration will be 40 minutes.
Sincavage will be performing “What is Taken for Natural”, a performance piece that examines how violence against women as well as the silencing of healing is normalized through social ritual, domestic enclosure, and enforced silence. Drawing from Silvia Federici’s analysis of patriarchal capitalism, the work frames intimate partner violence not as an aberration, but as a condition sustained by systems that privatize harm while demanding women’s endurance.
