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August 12 – August 30

Volume Control

Artists: 
CJ Cowden – Dafne Berg – Jeremy Gornto – Ralph Pàquin – Sophia Rose – Herman Solberg – Bianca Youngers

Art does not need to be monumental to command a room. Volume Control is an exhibition about presence the way a work can swell with energy, saturate the air around it, or retreat into a charged quietness. Here, scale is not measured in inches or feet but in impact, in how a piece holds you, pulls you closer, or lingers in your mind long after you’ve stepped away.

 

Each artwork in this exhibition sets its own volume. Some pieces hum with tension, colors vibrating, lines pressing forward, every mark a declaration of intent. Others feel hushed, their power residing in restraint, in the smallest gesture or a barely-there shift of tone. None of the works shout with size, yet each one insists on being noticed, asking you to meet it where it stands.

Volume, in this sense, is not about sound or physical dominance. It is about how art chooses to occupy space, not just the space of the gallery walls but the space inside us as we encounter it. The works here invite you to listen carefully. Some will speak in whispers that gather weight the longer you stay. Others will seem to pulse, filling the air with a force far greater than their scale should allow.

 

This exhibition asks you to consider what it means for something small to feel vast, for quiet to hold as much power as spectacle, and for presence to be defined not by size, but by intention.

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