Bomb Cell

Jack Henry

Valery Jung Estabrook

Sarah Bednarek

The artists in the exhibition work with various themes in nature, and the geometry of growth and movement within nature, to create dystopic or even sci-fi psychological spaces. Mourning, re-growth, subliminal natural patterns and structures — these truths all are central to the artists’ current works on view. As humans tattoo their wear and tear all over our planet, these artists remind us of the underlying awe-inspiring and invading natural phenomena that weave themselves back onto environments, and into our bodies.

Jack Henry utilizes discarded objects and plant life to reflect our current role in the Anthropocene. His work points towards the sublime moments that occur when our objects depart from human contact and harbor within plant growth, resulting in accidental sculptures and monuments to cultural disaffection.

Born in Jackson, MS, and raised in Flint, MI - Jack now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Florida Atlantic University and his MFA from University of Maryland. His work has been shown in exhibitions at Wasserman Projects, Detroit; Lesley Heller Workspace, New York; ProjekTraum, Friedrichshafen, Germany; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn; Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago; Spring/Break Art Fair, New York; Nudashank, Baltimore; Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, and more.

Valery Jung Estabrook’s multidisciplinary work draws upon her background in film and tv, as she uses cinema tropes subvert expectations of video art, by playing off of our collective media memory bank. Her work is filled with hidden personal histories. Bees, flowers, and edible plants and fruits are metaphors that attempt to reconcile the Asian-American dilemma of the "perpetual foreigner."

Valery was born in Plantation, Florida, and grew up on an organic Asian pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Lagos, Bilbao, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in New Mexico.

Sarah Bednarek constructs sculptures that explores human biology via formal relationships such as symmetry, repetition, texture, and color through rigorous geometry and craftsmanship. Currently a cancer survivor— themes of magnification and unseen structures are both central, and personal.

Sarah is a 2005 MFA graduate of the Sculpture program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was an artist in residence at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY and was a fellow at The Hunter College Ceramics Department. Her exhibition record includes solo exhibitions at TSA New York and ADA Gallery in Richmond. She has curated various projects, and shown widely in group exhibitions nationally and internationally.