Thursday, March 26 at 6:30pm

Charlie Best, Cybele Collins, Alex Gonzalez

Charlie Best (they/he) is an artist, seamstrix, and museum worker. They've been making sculptures, garments, prints, zines, and more, while they did a lot of farming, sewing for people, and substitute teaching. He's now focusing on papercutting, mobiles, trying wood/metal again, and who knows what else. Charlie is frequently trying to figure out how best to describe their art practice, but they know it includes Polish and German folk art, trans imagining, fiber, and repairing people's clothes. They probably need to get access to a scanner soon.  @charlie___best

Cybele Collins possesses gods-eye view into parallel worlds full of creation, destruction, structure and disarray, with a grace that refuses to be reduced to recognizable items from our own world. Her pinhole camera into these parallel cosmogonies preserves the writhing, bubbling mass of what we can try to describe as organic, or life-like constructions, without becoming a face, a body, a known organism, or a nameable thing. In fact, Cybele draws from the stuff that stuff is made of, and renders them into forms both alien and deeply recognizable as true. One can easily get lost following the contours of her artworks, discovering small features and movements that tickle our brain, all the while absorbing the whole construction, like focusing on the vein of a fallen leaf until a whole forest appears around it. To be induced beyond beauty into awe by these works is an appropriate reaction. In her current work, one can see an intersection between a fierce talent for illustration, a dedicated curiosity towards empirical phenomena, and a greater transcendent sense of wonder that comes form examining life and possible-life for both information and immersion. www.cybelecollins.com @ybelline

Alex Gonzalez is an artist whose work is largely informed by his background in ecology and urban landscape design. Working across mediums and degrees of abstraction, he explores the ambiguity of perception and the interface between land, water, and culture.