The Inevitable Shadow

Sung Eun Park, Alyson Provax, and Kelda Van Patten

February 5–27, 2022

“All subjects are the same; we’re wondering if life has any meaning at all outside the sensory pleasures of being alive that are briefly granted to most (but not all) of us.” Mary Ruefle

In The Inevitable Shadow, artists Sung Eun Park, Alyson Provax, and Kelda Van Patten present new work created in the last year. Through themes of nostalgia, longing, and death, each artist navigates the ongoing pandemic and the intensity of the inevitable shadow. The artists work in sculpture, printmaking, and photography respectively, and they each express the overwhelming potential of the present moment and the difficulty of locating oneself within it. Each of the new works depict perspective from a multitude of shifting viewpoints, softly inviting the viewer to question perceptions of what we are seeing.