June 5th - 28th, 2025

North Gallery

The title reflects these artist's practices. Thomas works with squares as a significant feature of her work while Curtis uses a square format to anchor all of his paintings.

Thomas makes artwork that focuses on spatial relationships and shifting perspectives. She explores and invites others to investigate the different possibilities of space and perception.

Her wood sculptures consist of squares which she uses to frame and shape space. She incorporates lighting, shadows and reflective materials in order to create multiple perceptual layers. The combination of these lighting elements and the way the squares act as frames makes the artwork enter the space and becomes more experiential and challenges perceptual expectations.

Most recently Thomas has been expanding her sculpture practice into different mediums, including incorporating her sculptures into paintings, building them on canvases or using a variety of painting techniques on them.

Curtis's paintings are a tangle of the ineffable - playful, unsettling, and alive with the logic of dreams. Working in experimental scales and vivid pastels, he creates "cinematic brain captures" where figures and ground collide, forming psychedelic puzzles that linger in the mind like half-remembered stories. His work embraces the irrational, the childlike and the uncanny, inviting viewers into a world where meaning is fluid and discovery is endless.

Each painting is an open-eyed dream, a conversation between the familiar and the strange. The goal isn't to decode, but to wander, to meet the unexpected, both on the canvas and within ourselves.