Movement and restraint. Freedom and order. The Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence all work within systems of structure. Between grids, garments, rituals, and patterns, they each play with moments of tension and confinement to create expansive spaces and experiences. A kite pulling against its tether, the growing fractal geometry of a fern, a pattern shifting under a viewer’s gaze, or light repeating in dialogue with its environment. Here, movement, freedom, and meditation can emerge and invite us to new ways of seeing, being, and connecting.
Hai-Wen Lin invites the company of naturally occurring phenomena to unsettle static markers of identity and attune the body to its environment. Wind, sun, and sky act as relational anchors for kites that speak the language of clothing. Lin gestures toward a liberatory future while staying rooted in gratitude, connection, and the practice of being present.
Jason Lord’s expansive, interdisciplinary practice is a rigorous inquiry into time, repetition, and attention. Moving fluidly across sculpture, sound, installation, and performance, his work pushes at the boundaries of craft, art, and design while returning to the essential questions: What does it mean to be a human being, and what can art do?”
Leigh Suggs reimagines the grid as a flexible and ambiguous framework, asking viewers to remain active participants in the experience of the work. Through meticulous, hand-cut patterns, drawings, and shifting reflections, her work oscillates between veiling and revealing, transfixing viewers in the delicate space between structure and transformation.
Rebecca Lipps creates immersive works that explore the dynamic relationship between moving images and physical environment. Combining painting, sculpture, and video, she uses rhythm and repetition to create meditative spaces. Here viewers are invited to take part in a happening pushing the boundaries of technology and art in a new form of expression.
