Infused is a group exhibition that reconceives the teapot as a site of formal and conceptual inquiry. Beyond its functional origins, the teapot becomes a canvas for sculptural, abstract, and experimental exploration, inviting viewers to reconsider its material, symbolic, and cultural resonance. Featuring works by Boryana Alexandrova, Kathy Coe, David Cramer, Sonja Czekalski, Roya Farassat, Piet Mura, Enne Tesse, and Julia Whitney Barns the exhibition presents a range of inventive approaches that oscillate between domestic intimacy and broader aesthetic investigation.
The teapot emerges here as both artifact and idea, a locus of ritual, exchange, and material ingenuity. The works on view engage their history while simultaneously stretching their identity — from familiar, referential forms to transformative gestures that challenge tradition. Through these diverse interventions, Infused traces the intersections of utility and art, structure and play, surface and imagination.
In dialogue with these stone forms is a series of etchings that extends Gesualdi’s exploration of material and touches into two dimensions. The etched lines echo the process of carving — gestures of removal and revelation that mirror his sculptural sensibility. Together, these works reveal the artist’s deep engagement with time, gravity, and care.
Frank Kara’s show features 101 unique teapots created over his long career—each one a meditation on form, function, and play.
This isn’t just an exhibition of vessels—it’s a living archive. Each teapot is a statement of intention, a reflection of Kara’s lifelong dialogue between ceramics, sounds, and function. Collectively, the hundred teapots map an artistic journey toward harmony, surprise, and soulful resonance.
Tiny Acts brings together a group of artists whose practices foreground the quiet, persistent power of attention. Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, echings, and mixed media, these artists—Becky Bailey, Julia Whitney Barnes, Jenn Cacciola, Kathy Coe, Bruce Dunbar, Julie Durkin Marty, Joseph Fucigna, Daisy Gesualdi, Dave Gesualdi, Diana Gubbay, Ted Hendrickson, Katerina Lanfranco, Sascha Mallon, Pamela Marks, Bob Marty, Cecilia Moy Fradet, Ken Scaglia, Michele Riche, and Russell Steinert—share an investment in the intimate scale as a site of resonance rather than limitation.
In their hands, modest gestures become acts of devotion. A stitch, a scored line, a pressed thumbprint, a layered brushstroke—each accumulates through time, carrying with it a sense of touch and presence. Materials function as repositories of memory: clay bearing the trace of pressure, fibers twisting into emotional architectures, pigment settling into slow rhythms. These works invite a kind of looking that is less about consumption than communion.
Across the exhibition, quiet systems emerge—repetitions, grids, sequences, accumulations—yet they remain deeply human, softened by the irregularities of the handmade. The result is a field of objects that feel as much offered as made, hovering between artwork and artifact, gesture and keepsake.
At a moment defined by acceleration and excess, Tiny Acts proposes another mode of being: one in which smallness becomes radical, attention becomes expansive, and the simplest actions carry profound weight. Taken together, these works form a collective meditation on care, perception, and the enduring potency of the subtle.
Winter Highlights
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Upcoming Events
Frank Kara |101 Teapots & Infused
December 5, 6-7 PM: Creative Cocktail Hour - First Friday
December 6th, 28, 4–6 PM: Artists Reception
December 12 | 6–8 PM: Redding Neighbors & Newcomers Evening at G-Town Arts
December 21st, 2-4 PM: Arist Talk & Afternoon Tea
Into The Looking Glass
January 10, 4–6 PM: Opening Reception
February 6, 6-7 PM: Creative Cocktail Hour - First Friday
February 7, 22, 4-6 PM: Artists Talk + Closing Reception
