My work explores painting as a place of interaction and reflection where human presence completes the work.

Working from observation – landscape, interior, or still life – Kayla Mohammadi seeks visual translation rather than literal portrayal in her paintings. Influenced by her dual Finnish and Persian heritage, her work seeks the unexpected place we encounter through sudden, fresh juxtapositions of form and color.

Carrie Patterson's paintings and collages investigate the tension between the memory of architectural spaces and the space of painterly process. Her work questions whether the physicality of a painting or collage can be representative of space without illusion. Influenced by architecture where light plays on structure and material, her recent work experiments with boxes that house reflective objects such as prisms. Patterson videotapes the prisms' reflections, edits and loops the footage, and projects the video on her studio wall as subject matter for painting.