Exhibition | Where We Are Free

JULY 16 - AUGUST 14, 2026

curated by Breehan James

Sophie Cangelosi, Mary Henderson, Breehan James, Woomin Kim, Justine Kurland, Susan Lichtman, Marcelle Reinecke, Suzannah Sinclair, Atieh Sohrabi, Ariana Vaeth, Helena Wurzel

Where We Are Free brings together eleven contemporary women artists whose work centers women as complex subjects: protagonists, friends, companions, sisters, and caretakers. In this exhibition, freedom is imagined not as solitude and independence but as something created through the support and reciprocity of relationships.

Across painting and image-making, these artists explore the spaces women create for one another- spaces of friendship, intimacy, care, imagination, and belonging. Through domestic interiors, landscapes, communal gatherings, and imagined worlds, the artists depict women in states of connection: to one another, to themselves, and to the environments they inhabit. Throughout the exhibition, women gather, wander, rest, nurture, observe, and dream.

The artists in Where We Are Free are united by an attentiveness to the emotional and social architectures that sustain women's lives. Their works linger in often-overlooked spaces where care is practiced and relationships are formed. Friendship emerges as a generative force, tenderness as a mode of knowledge, and love as something expansive enough to encompass chosen family, community and the natural world.

Many of these artists blur the boundaries between observation and imagination, memory and desire. Their paintings and images document lived experience while envisioning alternative ways of being together. In doing so, they participate in a long feminist tradition of reclaiming subjects historically considered private, ordinary, or peripheral, revealing them instead as sites of meaning, agency, and possibility. Through their attention to relationships, these artists suggest freedom is a collective experience rather than an individual pursuit.

-Breehan James