Upcoming Exhibitions - McLean Project for the Arts

Coming in 2025!

Emerson Gallery: Pieced Together, We are Whole

Atrium Gallery: Playing With Shadows, by Liz Lescault

January 16 – February 22, 2025

Opening Exhibition Reception: Thursday, January 16 at 7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 25 at 11am

Tea & Talk: Tuesday, February 11 at 11am

About Pieced Together, We are Whole
The artists featured in Pieced Together We are Whole all work non-traditionally within the quilting medium. Using a variety of approaches, the ideas explored are personal, political, and universal. Built into the making process, which entails the joining together of many parts to create a whole, is also the expression of ideas about communion, cohesion, gathering, blending, and building. The artists whose works are featured include Megan Koeppel, Susan J. Lapham, Russ Little, Dominie Nash, John Paradiso, and Imani W. Russell.

Liz Lescault, “Trundle”

About Playing with Shadows
Liz Lescault’s biomorphic sculptures in Playing with Shadows, are constructed primarily with extruded filaments, some sculptures incorporating found objects. The fine filaments create shadows that become part of the piece, sometimes indistinguishable from it. Liz is fascinated with remnants that illuminate the nature of organic entities and naturally occurring substances. Remnants and relics such as shadows, fossils and residues are a part of an object’s story and can be used in discovery. Scientists use remnants to uncover the nature of objects that may no longer exist in their original form. Remnants can also tell us more about the existing nature of an object, as in this current exhibit Playing with Shadows.

Spring Solos
Featuring work by Jackie Hoysted, Emon Surakitkoson and Heidi Fowler
April 10 – June 14, 2025
Opening Exhibition Reception: Thursday, April 17, 7-9pm
Opening Exhibition presented by The Mather
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 10, 11am
Tea & Talk: Wednesday, June 4, 11am

Detrimorphose, by Heidi Fowler (Atrium Gallery)

In the exhibition “Detrimorphose,” Heidi Fowler depicts the power of brokenness and redemption through mixed media paintings. The artists bring together discarded materials (junk mail, plastic, rustic pieces, and old computer parts) in assemblages to inspire a greater consciousness and creativity towards the paraphernalia we would otherwise discard; exploring the tension between the beauty of creation and the priorities of man.

Rudimental, by Jackie Hoysted (Emerson Gallery)

Jackie Hoysted’s Rudimental is an interactive immersive installation that evokes ideas of nature in interconnectedness. Using simple geometrical elements to generate imagery, and meditative sounds the installation harks back to undervalued ancestral connections with the land, the planet, the universe. It is a call for mutual respect, reciprocity and recognition of our minuteness in the universe.

Crossing Culture, by Emon Surakitkoson (Emerson Gallery)

Crossing Culture features two recent bodies of work by Thai-American artist Emon Surakitkoson, a culmination of her professional journey over the past five years. Using multiple conjoined canvases and wood panel, Emon created works that use shape and composition to convey unity among their unique contributing parts. The individual pieces take on new meaning and value when seen as part of a collective. With her sculptural work Emon translates her voice into a new visual language. This collection as a whole is born from Emon’s personal and artistic growth, as she embraces the complexities of her cultural identity as an immigrant from Thailand in the United States.

MPA’s 2025 Spring Solo Exhibitions are funded in part by an ArtsFairfax Project Grant.

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