”LIVING WITH ART

two distinct works engage in a quiet yet profound dialogue. Heather Guertin’s painting, a composition of shifting hues and fluid abstraction and Max Hooper Schneider’s sculpture, a hybrid organism of organic and industrial matter.

”Guertin’s painting, alive with surfaces that seem to pulse and morph, suggests a moment in flux, an image on the verge of becoming or dissolving. Its colors seep into one another, like a memory half-formed resisting fixed interpretation. In close proximity, Schneider’s sculpture stands as an artifact from a speculative future, encrusted with coral-like growths and synthetic vines coiling around fragments of discarded technology. It embodies transformation, the tension between decay and regeneration.

”Between these two works, time itself seems unsettled. Guertin’s painting offers an emotional landscape, an interiority that shifts with each viewing, while Schneider’s sculpture materializes the tension between nature and artifice, past and future. In their juxtaposition, they question permanence, one through the fluidity of paint and the other through the slow but inevitable reclamation of the synthetic by the organic.

To live with these works is to live with a conversation that never fully resolves…one that speaks to the impermanence of both objects and ideas, the beauty in change, and the way art, like life, refuses to stand still.