Re|Structure
On display in the main gallery is Re|Structure, Mahoney’s visual, haptic investigation of the intersection of humanity and structure.
Structure brings stability, safety, and predictability to daily life, undergirding buildings, calendars and the rule of law. It is the essence of play in board games, playgrounds, and athletic competition at every level. Art itself is structural; composition, color theory, and rhythm emanate from it. Simultaneously, however, structure confines and constrains, creating barriers, hierarchy, and monotony. Gender norms, class stratification and identity-based discrimination are rooted in its rigidity.
In two and three dimensional work on paper, metal and board, Re|structure observed this dissonance and asks: what is immutable, what is changeable? It lingers at the threshold—the way in and the way out—and listens to the flip side, the b-side. It asks the viewer to join the artist in making, obliterating the barriers between them.
fractals
Occupying the hallway and back galleries, Tohmé presents Fractals, an exhibition in which identity is treated as a negotiation not a destination. As a queer Lebanese Southern American, his process is an act of self-preservation — a cycle of accumulation and erasure that holds space for a self continually reshaped by its environment.
The paintings emerge from the studio floor, built from plaster, paper, and fragments, only to be weathered back down. Tohmé treats these surfaces as a record of what is permitted to remain, using erasure as both excavation and protection. These scratched, labored canvases carry the physical evidence of that struggle, standing in quiet dialogue with untouched found objects that ground the work in the external world. This is the geometry of flux. Like the jagged edge of a coastline or the branching of a lung, the work adopts the logic of the fractal: a form that refuses to smooth out under scrutiny, revealing infinite complexity the closer one looks.
