Tess Chatfield
The Ruins of St. Clair

&

Emily Williams:
Gaslight & Greasepaint

Sept 11th - 27th, 2026
Opening Reception Sept 11th 5-9pm

Tess Chatfield:
The Ruins of St. Clair

As an abstract artist, I strive to capture the intimate feelings of nostalgia, yearning, and regret in relation to obsessively contemplating my past into tangible pieces. Extracting emotions that surpass the specificity of my experience helps to soothe the desire to compulsively relive memories, creating vulnerable and nonrepresentational pieces as I focus on the obsessive and repetitive constitution of how I process my memories. This body of work serves as a time capsule for a specific chapter of my life, touching on the intricacy of human connections, religious expectations, and the deceptive intimacy of friendship.

Central to my artistic exploration is leaning into the desire for addictive ruminating and the effect this has on my time spent in the studio. I use abstract expression as a means to heal, to relieve my life of obsessively contemplating and replaying memories, as well as connecting people through the human experience of lingering feelings and the need to process. My studio practice and time spent creating focuses on unabashedly giving into this addiction to memory, to pour my contemplation into physical forms.

A letter from a represented party: “Over the course of our friendship, I’ve been praying that we would love one another well and grow closer”

Emily Williams:
Gaslight & Greasepaint

Gaslight & Greasepaint is an immersive exploration of grief, love, loss, survival, and the strange things we do to survive them. Through the recurring figure of the clown, Emily Williams examines the places where humor and heartbreak coexist and where the roles we perform for others begin to blur with the people we are underneath.

Set within the visual language of a haunted Victorian parlor, the exhibition draws from mourning traditions, domestic objects, theatrical spectacle, and the elaborate rituals people create around love and loss. Here, clowns become mourners, ghosts, fragile objects, performers, and survivors. These clowns are figures capable of carrying what is sometimes too painful, too absurd, or too complicated to say plainly.

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Sept 11th- Oct 18th, 2026

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