Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E

December 11-13, 2025

Opening

Thursday, December 11, 6-8 pm

Closing

Saturday July 20, Noon

Slow Blinking is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Rose Nestler, as part of the 2025 Canopy Program.

Frequently engaging the meeting point of art and craft, Slow Blinking presents new works across sculpture, ceramics, textiles, video, and painting. Brown cooks and stitches symbolic bioplastic to reimagine Victorian quilting. Anderson queers a Mormon upbringing in an often-joyful, cross-disciplinary investigation of American family and rural life. Brewer creates unconventional vessels decorated with nature’s small wonders that embrace tradition toward renewed reverence. Hager translates the experience of looking directly into bright light through stylized renditions of the sun – a subject that resists direct observation. Further informed by daily observation, Guarnieri composes sculptures that defy easy categorization, drawing a light comedic attitude from provisional materials and everyday language.

Drawing upon their respective cultural identities, Funaki presents video works that emphasize the futility of physicality, with the tenor of a sigh, a stumble, or a slow blink. Employing the mechanics of sight, Landa embeds hidden imagery into a Persian textile using 1990s Magic Eye. While Ly draws upon her Vietnamese culture to recreate a family sedge mat in steel and reed that unexpectedly merges with the dinnerware set atop. As a queer mother/artist, Harvey depicts the femme body in states of precarity – as a vessel that retains the residue of expectation. Directly contending with impaired vision, Thompson crafts castables whose accumulation and tonal restraint address the sensorial boundaries of the body.

To blink – a small, yet essential act – is a gesture of vulnerability. When faced with the intense or obscure, blinking becomes an attempt to see what is difficult to discern. In an era of visual saturation, Slow Blinking prompts an act of resistance against the pace of easy consumption – compelling us not to look away and seek beyond the readily apparent.