Death is a Door

Srijon Chowdhury, Benjamin Cowan, Doug Crocco, Kenny Curtwood, Tom DeLaney, Charlie Goering, Aramis Gutierrez, Ellen R. Hanson, L, Megan Lindeman, Megan Lindeman, Pandele Radu, Meredith Sellers, Henry Swanson, Unitedfutures

A door is not an ending. It is the last architecture of the living — a frame we build around the one passage we cannot see through. Death Is a Door gathers work that lingers in the room between two worlds rather than choosing a side.

Every culture builds a passage for the dead — a ferry, a gate, a veil, a flight of stairs into water. The passage is never the destination. It is the interval: the held breath between what was and what comes after. The works in this exhibition exist inside that interval. Their subjects are not death itself but its thresholds — a locked door, a boat mid-crossing, flowers already turning, fruit at the edge of rot. Beauty and decay share the same frame, because at the door they are the same event.

To stand before these works is to stand at the threshold — and to be asked, gently, to look through.