About The Show
Static
Static is all around us and is unaffected by the presence or absence of power. A static environment has no capacity for variation or deviation – there are no possibilities, no
potential for growth. No peace.
Working with acrylic/latex on canvas, I use color contrasts and mathematics to create abstract graphic representations of the symbols and institutions that are defined by conventional standards. The color stories told in my work challenge the viewer to question the norms and frameworks that shape our traditions and allegiances. My art is often a critique of the rigidity of the systems we operate in and their influence on individual thought and freedom.
Static is a collection of works that explores the always available opportunity for progress in stagnation, action in passivity and movement in stillness.
Artist Bio
Anthony Gatto is an artist and arts educator living and working in Columbus, OH. After 25+ years working in public arts schools, he utilized the attic of his east side house to
build a home studio. Heavily influenced by 20 th century pop artists, he paints precise color stories where the blocked colors are in conversation with each other and the viewer – posing such questions as… Can orange sit next to pink? What could that blue possibly have to say to that green? And, who will stand up to red?
About The Show
Exploring the beauty found in vulnerability and impermanence, I encourage viewers to rethink how they perceive strength and weakness. Living with chronic conditions has taught me to
question reality and examine how perception creates our world. I am attracted to transformative moments where boundaries blur, bringing the hidden into focus and revealing resplendent, mysterious undertones.I create spaces that shift perception. This prompts viewers to reconsider with bold colors, light, and tactile materials like embroidery, neon vinyl, and reflective surfaces. My work balances fragility and resilience by transforming overlooked, everyday materials into powerful expressions.
Artist Bio
Lydia Wickham is a BFA candidate at the Columbus College of Art & Design, graduating in 2025. She lives in Circleville and works in Columbus, OH. Wickham has exhibited nationally, including VIVID at d’Art Center in Norfolk, VA, where she was awarded a one-year membership to the Surface Design Association; Transparency at Union Street Gallery in Chicago Heights, IL;
Carla: The Essence of Love and Joy at All People Arts in Columbus, OH; and Young Hearts 2025 at Sean Christopher Gallery in Columbus, OH. In 2024, Wickham received third place, Best of Show at the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Competition (Amateur Division). Her public art projects include performing a live wedding painting at the Bryn Du Mansion in Granville, OH, and creating holiday window paintings for White Castle in 2021 and 2022. In 2025, Lydia will exhibit at 934 Gallery in Columbus, OH, and will have a piece traveling with Art Possible Ohio’s Accessible Expressions 2025 exhibition.
About The Show
DOLLHOUSE is a series of works that examines possible forms for the inarticulate facets of the self. The surface of each piece is worked repetitively with crochet, knit, or hand quilting. Making this work is a meditative — and a paradoxically anxious — practice of understanding the self in relation to family. This needlework is a series of units: stitches that make up rows, rows that make up shapes, and shapes that make up image, object, and gure. It echoes the way memories, relationships, and experiences seem to make up a person; the way rooms make up a house; and the way individuals make up a family. Familial relationships — and the spaces that house them — are dynamic and structural. They form the architecture of the mind as a communal, and often crowded, space. DOLLHOUSE attempts to bring form to the base emotional components of a slightly
neurotic Midwestern family.
Artist Bio
Baylee Schmitt (MFA from Miami University) is currently the printmaking lab manager at University of Cincinnati DAAP. Memory, place, and the indistinguishable difference between childhood fact and fantasy are central to Baylee’s practice as a ber artist and printmaker. Baylee has exhibited work with solo exhibitions at Laisun Keane Gallery, River East Gallery, and the Fitton Center for Creative Arts. Baylee has also participated in group exhibitions with BravinLee Projects, at TW Fine Art, DesignTO, Ohio Craft Museum, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, and more.
