Liminality

David Barnes, Lydia M. Kinney, Nicholas Anthony Mancini, Catherine Scala

May 29 - July 19, 2025

ABOUT THE SHOW

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.
~ William Blake

Liminality is a contemplation on areas of overlap, ambiguity, and transition, in terms both aesthetic and metaphorical. By pairing two abstract artists (Catherine Scala and Lydia M. Kinney) with two artists who work representationally (David Barnes and Nicholas Anthony Mancini), we've taken the theme to a "meta" level. The concept of liminality is evident at an individual level, in the play of visual elements, the nuanced emotional atmospherics, and the metaphorical truths intimated in each piece but also in the collective, in the zones of energetic and perceptual overlap that occur when these separate bodies of work are observed in conversation with each other.

FEATURED ARTISTS

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Catherine Scala

As a process painter, I don’t use color as ornament -- I use it as force, as structure, as the senses made visible.

Nicholas Anthony Mancini

Over the past six years my focus has shifted toward what I call the Image Object, images in our everyday world that are flat while existing in three-dimensional space.

Lydia M. Kinney

Lydia favors art that articulates a relationship to self, to body, space, and form. Abstraction gives her means to illustrate the often figurative sensations of loss (future tense), alienation (physical), and doubt.

David Barnes

On the whole, the work is pared down and atmospheric, which is consistent with my previous paintings. They exist somewhere between representation and abstraction. Between form and formlessness.