October 26 – 31
Artists: Indigo Conat-Naar, Kaden McCauley Robb, Maya Srinivasan, Brianna Cole, Kate Goodvin, Izzy Gray Van den Heuvel, and Alexandra Riesco
Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
Interdisciplinary artist Indigo Conat-Naar’s work highlights the fleeting intersections of being, memory, and place that arise from encountering objects in the world. Her work ranges across installation, sculpture, video, sound, performance, drawing, text, and photography. Throughout these mediums, she maintains a clear voice of vulnerability and presence, opening up worlds of possibility outside of time. Within these worlds, her work becomes a language that theory can’t refute; a manifestation of the tender specifics of being. Beginning with rigorous observation and reflection with autobiographical fragments as building blocks, she creates new worlds with soft edges, attending to a single point of tension until it fills the room. Replicated, altered, and broken objects become the sculptural bodies that inhabit these worlds; characters entangled with their being and sustained only by a sympathetic viewer.
Kaden McCauley Robb focuses on intaglio, copperplate etching, sugar lift, toner wash, and printmaking techniques, exploring the intersection of music, movement, rhythm, and print.
Maya Srinivasan is a bookbinder and printmaker.
Brianna Cole’s artistic practice is rooted in world-building and storytelling, a continuous search for the elusive element of herself that finds expression through making, sharing, and imagining. Navigating the chaos and beauty of creation with curiosity and embracing the unknown and allowing failure to guide discovery, each project is an invitation to explore personal and collective experiences, to inhabit spaces both whimsical and uncanny, and to uncover the hidden patterns of human longing and imagination. From installations to prints, drawings, collage, and 3D environments, she experiments across mediums to translate emotional and conceptual ideas into tangible forms. In her role as a Wish Room Ambassador, Cole explores hope as a shared practice, creating participatory spaces where participants’ desires, reflections, and dreams converge into ritual, sound, and archive. These acts of engagement transform private longing into collective resonance, bridging individual experience with broader emotional networks.
Multidisciplinary artist Kate Goodvin’s work examines the transition from girlhood to womanhood in the twenty-first century. Drawing from her own coming-of-age experiences, she explores themes of childhood innocence, adolescent turbulence, and personal growth. By combining screen printing with quilted textiles, Goodvin creates layered tapestries that feel both intimate and physically rich.
Izzy Gray Van den Heuvel’s artistic practice explores printmaking techniques and book arts. Her projects usually start with a “how” question, often centering on comfort, security, safety; what it is and how to find it. She approaches these questions with the same methodical mindset that she approaches the process of printmaking, often working in series, allowing for development of a larger story by the accumulation of small pieces.
Alexandra Riesco is an artist and printmaker from Miami, Florida. Her work is heavily influenced by the natural world and the dynamic processes that drive it. After completing a semester-long geology field program, she discovered the parallels between the forces that shape the planet and the slow, physical processes of printmaking. Her interest in the sciences and deep love for the outdoors feeds her practice, which incorporates drawing, printmaking, and papermaking to explore the bodily experience of the landscape, mapping and the geologic record, and the possibilities of a reciprocal rather than controlling relationship with the environment.