Outside In

Keenan Derby

Christine Garam Han

Christina Mesiti

Armando Ramos

In/out, true/false, north/south, light/dark, life/death. The works of Outside In seem to reference both external and internal spaces. But the analogous dichotomies that are conjured blur and haze the spectrum between. Channeled, archetypal memories of the sun, the sea and the sky fleet across the surfaces of Keenan Derby’s work. Canvases become bars, grates and grills in the work of Christine Garam Hahn, standing as barriers to the space within the paintings, left only to the imagination. The imprisoned, disembodied faces, hands, feet and breasts of Christina Mesiti’s sculptures writhe and gestate within earthen, geological-looking forms. Sculptures by Armando Ramos strike right at the heart of the dichotomy with evocative imagery reveling in the space between the profane and the sacred.