“At first glance, the collective works in this exhibition are scattered parts, fragments of a whole idea, the beginnings of what will evolve into fully realized statements brought to life by a creative catalyst. Much like the world around us now: a conglomerate of alternate realities, disconnected theories, and incongruent facts all gelled together by a binding agent which, in 2026, utterly lacks definition.  

Shared histories, shared experiences, our connection to one another is loosening daily. These artworks represent a struggle to connect with the other artists displayed, with the viewer, and to the world. Their path toward that connection is not a straight line, but a meandering path walked with intrepidity through a sea of uncertainty.  

Striving toward the goal of connection, these works (like the world around us) lack convention and definition, entering into an unknown future, but offering tools for survival: resiliency in the face of insurmountable struggle, unbridled individual expression when it is most needed, and a necessary place for rest along an arduous trek toward an unwritten future." 

“Primordial Soup”

Professor Tate Foley