CURRENT EXHIBITION

seen & Unseen

EXHIBITION DATES: January 7 - 31, 2026

RECEPTION: Thursday, January 8, 2025, 5 - 8 pm

The Painting Center is pleased to present Seen and Unseen curated by Shazzi Thomas from the Art File. Seen and Unseen is a group exhibition uniting artists whose works navigate the shifting boundaries between clarity and obscurity, the material and the ephemeral, the revealed and the concealed. Across abstraction, landscape, figuration, and experimental surface, these artists explore how meaning emerges through both the seen and the unseen, revealing how perception is shaped as much by what is visible as by what remains obscured, suggested, or withheld. Seen and Unseen unfolds as a contemplative space, inviting viewers to slow their pace and linger with works that resist easy resolution. As certainty loosens, patterns surface, gestures recur, and spectral presences remain, urging us to consider what happens when vision falters—when knowing is shaped by feeling, and perception becomes a quiet gesture of care. Artists in the exhibition include: Robin Adsit, Susan Barrett, Bradley Butler, Richard Glick, Mary Hafeli, Kirstine Reiner Hansen, Elizabeth Johnson, Wendy Kawabata, Renee Khatami, Sharon Lacey, Jan Lhormer, Tai Lipan, Cara London, Laura Ann Perry, Liza Philips, Sue Rollins, Alicia Rothman, Ellen Hallie Schiff, Virginia Sharkey, Kevin Sloan, Gene Underwood, and Laura Ahola Young.

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