Cancelled Appointments explores ideas that never moved beyond a suggestion in a sketch book, work that was retired, broken, or refurbished, and experimental projects and pieces that push the boundaries of the artists practices. Through the utilization of various materials in tandem with representational and abstract imagery, time, fantasy, and metaphysical forms the artists highlight the importance of process, exploration, and playfulness within their work. Cancelled Appointments features artists from all over the country.
Artists: Tom Makovitch, Amelia Briggs, grace otten, Shanna Zentner, Maggie King Johns, Max Hyde, Dallas Sigmon, Emma Gregory, Kayleigh Aldrich, & Luca Detrick
Curated by: Emma Schwartz & Fred Smith
Photography: Nataliya Karpov (@thenatlens)
THE BARN (March 27th - April 10th, 2026) Manlius, NY
Double Dare Ya is an exhibition featuring artists whose work has been censored and that challenges the norms of academia and institutional spaces. This exhibit highlights diverse voices that push back against the status quo that institutions uphold to create homogeneity of opinion and expression. Through this visual communication of personal experiences and lived realities. Double Dare Ya creates a space where these voices co-exist within safety and reciprocity.
This exhibition coincided with student-led MFA Painting Open Studios at Syracuse University.
Artists: Ella Hepner, Sophia MacMaster, Ash Hagerstrand, Naomi Basu, Nicholas Waguespack, Alex Blom, Gustavo Ayala, Brooke Raven, and Chloë Walker
Citrus Gallery (April 26th - May 3rd, 2025) Syracuse, NY
All I Think About Now is an exhibition featuring artists whose work exemplifies points of interpersonal connection through personal histories, figuration, poetics, dreamlike abstractions, and everyday scenes. Photography, ceramics, painting, weaving, and mix-media are utilized here to conversate unique lived realities with each other and act as an entry for viewers to connect with the artists and patrons in the gallery space to start conversations surrounding how we mobilize art and art spaces to to cause material changes for those around us.
Despite the precariousness of the world today this exhibition invites viewers to take a step outside of the individuality of our everyday lives and come into a space where art is utilized to create a space where new connections and bonds can be formed.
Artists: Chimera Singer, Reevah Agarwaal, Stuart Lantry, Amy Applegate, Hedieh Sorouri, Catie Dillon, Alejandra Carrillo, & Mahin Thorp
Citrus Gallery (March 1st - March 4th, 2025) Syracuse, NY
Just Like Heaven is an exhibition featuring femme artists from all over the country, who explore the creation of community within, through, and alongside their practices. This exhibition emphasizes the effects of collectivity, fictional world formation, collaborative projects, personal histories, and the interconnection of art making and community building. Initiating the questions of what does community creation look like? What forms does it take? What role does personal storytelling play in connection? Are communities only physical spaces and places?
Artists: Jessi Olarsch, Vivien Ebright Chung, Emma Hapner, Tara Lewis, Sofia Heredia, Hannah Paz-Westbrook, Hanna-Mae Greenfield, Gabrielle Dobrezelewski, Eva Lewis, Emma June Jones, Himeka Murai, & Brooke Raven
Random Access Gallery (November 8th - November 22nd, 2024) Syracuse, NY