Sharing Space

Sharing Space coincides with the grand opening of the Art Center’s new 1200 sq. ft. street-level A2AC Gallery and renovated studio spaces, located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor.

Tyanna J. Buie

Yiyun Chen

Rachel DeBoard

Jason J. Ferguson

Nicolei Buendia Gupit

Stacy Isenbarger

Breanne Johnson

Elise Kirk

Elise Marie Martin

AJ Schnettler

Kat Spears

Rachel Elise Thomas

Sharing Space brings together artists with diverse creative practices and life experiences to explore themes of intimacy, distance, connection, and comfort. Using sound, touch, and sight to activate our senses, their works challenge us to imagine possibilities for making space for ourselves and others in the face of personal and societal transformation.

This exhibition is an invitation to reflect on strategies for bridging distances and impassible divides or, alternatively, for finding one’s own space in a crowd. Photographs by Chen and Kirk express this tension. Their works convey experiences of searching for camaraderie in a sparsely populated landscape and communion with nature in the midst of a city. The natural world itself becomes a space of transformation in Thomas’s presentation of nature as therapy and in the paintings of DeBoard, where wild creatures reveal hidden chaos and the potential for renewal at the edges of our ordered domains. The material world, too, plays a critical role in the way we inhabit space and engage with one another. The objects designed by Martin and Johnson evoke familiar household objects—a table, a chair, a coat hanger—but invite surprising modes of interaction that challenge ideas of comfort. Ferguson’s and Isenbarger’s sculptures express rupture and reinvention in the heart of domesticity. In their multimedia works, Gupit, Terzieva, and Buie use artistic strategies of visual fragmentation, erasure, and accumulation to access and reconstruct spaces that only exist in memory. And finally, the works of Schnettler, Spears, and Thomas give us access to private moments and personal spaces, encouraging human connection through empathy.

A Series of Arrangements #6, 2022
Screen print, digital archival print, and collage on paper
22 x 30″
$1200

HOME-21-LAT42-LONG-84-002
Resin
4 x 9 x 6″
$1000

HOME-21-LAT42-LONG-84-001
Resin
5 x 9 x 6″
$900

HOME-21-LAT42-LONG-84-008
Resin
6 x 8 x 8″
$1000

HOME-21-LAT42-LONG-84-010
Resin
8 x 9 x 2″
$1000

HOME-21-LAT42-LONG-84-005
Resin
5 x 8 x 4″
$800

HOME-21-LAT42-LONG-84-(001, 002, 005, 008, and 0010), 2021
Resin

Pamilya – June 12, 1898, in memory of the Philippine Independence which was declared after 300 years of Spanish rule on this day, 2022
Paper pulp casts, found objects, wood, and video projection
63 x 32 x 38
NFS

Swivel Table
Birch plywood; carbon steel; lazy Susan hardware; stone, ceramic, and glass tableware
NFS

Williamsburg Waterfront, 2021
Archival Pigment Print
18 x 24
Price Upon Request

Safe Space, Volumes 1 & 2, 2018–19
Mixed media
6.5 x 9.5 x 1 (each)
NFS

Sharing Space is sponsored by

The 2022 A2AC Gallery Season is presented by