NOW, THEN...& OVER AGAIN
NEW work by Summer Artist Fellowship residents Micah Myers, MD, Hannah Walter, Edmonton, AB and Sal Xu, Beijing & Providence, RI.
Opening Reception: FRIDAY AUG 8th, 6-9p
Exhibition on AUG 7, 8 & 9th
Gallery hours 12-5p
or by appointment:
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@ NE SCULPTURE I Gallery Factory, 1720 Madison Street, MPLS.
with Music curated by Philippe & Fire Performance by Singed Nipples
Micah Myers (they/them) is a conceptual artist based in central Maryland whose practice explores the collection, transformation, and recontextualization of material remnants as a means of documenting presence, labor, and memory. They hold a BA in Studio Art from the University of Maryland, College Park, where they were a member of the competitive Honors Program in Studio Art.
"I devote attention to my surroundings as a way of cultivating a relationship with the spaces I inhabit. My work documents traces of human presence, exploring how marks left behind shape and record the environments we move through. This process requires close proximity and sustained, physical engagement with these materials and spaces, highlighting themes of utility, maintenance, and care. By recontextualizing these remnants, I aim to reveal the unassuming persistence of human interaction with the built world." Micah
Hannah Walter is an emerging Beaumont/Edmonton,AB artist and recent graduate from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design, with Distinction. Her painting and sculpture practice reflects introspective moments of her life and imagination, with a recent interest in the emotional play for comfort and assurance while under pressure. Hannah's best source of inspiration is nature and its serendipity, having grown up with many outdoor experiences that shaped her upbringing. Appropriately, even more of her life is spent looking for and appreciating beauty in ordinary moments of life than creating them herself in the studio.
"Through my mixed media sculpture and painting practice, I approach coping with struggle and doubt, anxiety and loneliness. This often results in art that relates just as much to comfort, healing and joy. My understanding is that those feelings which we find difficult are just as precious and worthy of our attention as the more pleasant ones: that they make the pleasant ones more potent. This philosophy directs my body of work, which takes on contemplative subjects set within complex scenes, moments of abstraction, and surrealism. I am intensely interested in how surface attention can emphasize mass or presence within a sculptural work and allow for an ambiguity that transcends its material nature before a careful look." Hannah
Sal Xu (b. 2003, Beijing) is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, and image. They live and work between MInnesota and Rhode Island, and recently received their BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025.
Investigating the fragile connection of events through tentative metaphors, Xu explores abstract timelines spatially. Working primarily with installation, sculpture, and image, their practice creates room for ambiguity, using translucency as a way to arrange confusions that lie beneath the complex causations of everyday life.
Xu’s work circles the moment before awareness—a sensory liminal state where clarity hasn’t yet arrived, and narrative hasn’t settled in. Their fascination with mediums like casted resin, silicone, wax, and water reflects an ongoing interest in forms that remain translucent, never fully legible. These surfaces act as veils—thresholds between past and present, surface and memory.
Confusion, in Xu’s practice, is a chronic condition by choice. Not a lack of meaning, but a structure that allows meaning to emerge slowly, and accumulate freely. Their work has been described as glimpsing a fleeting metaphysical moment—It resists clean arcs of cause and effect in favor of something quieter: a soft pull, a diffused signal, a pause.
8:30p FIRE PERFORMANCE; The Singed Nipples are bringing fire performance showcasing fire dancing, prop manipulation, flaming sword fights and fire breathing.
6-9p Music curated by Philippe Gallandat:
6:00 Wendy Wilflower
6:35 Grace
7:10 Kaity Joan
7:45 Raycurt Johnson, aka FIDDLA
8:20 Molly
8:55 Philippe Gallandat, Bella Ciao
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