Work description

This small encaustic painting emerged without a predetermined image. Through successive layers of wax and pigment on wood, a form gradually revealed itself—like a seed pressing upward through soil. What began as an intuitive process became an image of germination and quiet insistence, where form arrives through accumulation, pressure, and time rather than design.

Artemisia Rescue: Across Time and Space is a collaborative exhibition between SOlL Artist-Run Gallery (Seattle) and Durden & Ray (Los Angeles). Inspired by the Artemisia (mugwort) plant and its rhizomatic growth, the exhibition explores resilience, interconnection, and collective survival across geographies and time.

Working from the rhizome as both metaphor and method, the project brings together artists whose practices engage care, repair, and adaptation in moments of social and ecological precarity. Long associated with healing, dreaming, and protection, Artemisia anchors the exhibition in histories of embodied knowledge and cultural memory. Unfolding across two cities, Artemisia Rescue proposes connection-not hierarchy—as a model for sustaining creative and communal life.

Exhibiting artists: lole Alessandrini, Nola Avienne, Sofya Belinskaya, Arezoo Bharthania, Colleen RJC Bratton, Reed van Brunschot, Chris Buening, Lee Davignon, James Hartunian, Ben Hirschkoff & Karim Shuquem, Jia Jia, Margie Livingston, David Leapman, Quinton Merada, quinn mcnichol, Cameron Day O'Connell, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic & Hiroshi Shimizu, Warren Pope, Ty Pownall, Max Presneill, Stephanie Sherwood, Dylan Ricards, Genevieve Tremblay, Valerie Wilcox