Open to the public:

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - Friday, July 5, 2024

Monday - Friday, 11am - 5pm

Opening reception:

Wednesday, May 8, 6-8pm

Exhibition Walkthrough with the artists:

Saturday, June 1, 2-5pm

Artist Talk with filmmaker Jenny Perlin

Tuesday, June 18, 6-8pm

Project: ARTspace is pleased to present Anywhere But Here, works by four contemporary artists united in their respective sensitivity and response to the concept of “place." This exhibition is curated by artist Margaret Lanzetta. A catalog will be available.

Susan Goethel Campbell, Heide Fasnacht, Margaret Lanzetta and David Packer each explore “place” from varied geographical, imaginary, cultural and political perspectives. Nostalgia or aspirations for an ideal or imagined place are tangled with notions of alienation, confusion or the underlying rootlessness of a perpetual global nomad. The exhibition title, Anywhere But Here, is borrowed from the 1986 novel by Mona Simpson. The novel chronicles the heart-rending peregrinations of a wise child and her fantasy-driven, dreamer mother as they careen across America propelled by conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation. “I was glad to be driving. I didn’t care how far we went," daughter Ann declares.

Susan Goethel Campbell’s Lost Cities series explores the concept of place from a geographical, aerial perspective. While inspired by alarming sea levels of coastal cities that may one day be underwater, the works paradoxically also present dreamlike phenomena of light, shadow and beauty.

Heide Fasnacht explores memory, melancholy, fallibility, and "unclaimed reminiscences" in her photo-based, mixed media paintings. Painted on grounds of digitally manipulated, tiled inkjet prints, their surfaces are activated by a palimpsest of textured brushwork.

Margaret Lanzetta’s paintings unite notions of physical place with culture. The paintings combine paint, silkscreen and globally-sourced textiles to investigate cross-currents of world decorative traditions in relation to current cultural migration and political narratives.

David Packer’s ceramic astronauts and map drawings originate from an aerial perspective to query our place in an exponentially changing world. In Country Club, random countries float in a sea of gesturally-worked graphite.

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