NEW YORK, NY – All Street Gallery is pleased to present i can’t (un)see it, a group exhibition featuring Patrick Bell, Cecilia Chiappini, Isa Dorvillier, Mira Goodman, Zachary Hill, Kimin Kim, Jared LeClaire, Jesse Mineo, Lilian Mühlenkamp, Eve O’Shea, Thalia Renaker, and Maris Van Vlack. Using painting, assemblage, found objects and mementos, textiles, and photography, the exhibiting artists visualize memories, bodily sensations, and their lasting impressions. The work dives into the dissolution of the representational form of the figure, highlighting impressions of ambiguity between the body and its environment in dissociative, sublime, and nostalgic ways. The exhibition will be on view from March 1 - April 1, 2025, at All Street Gallery’s East Village location (77 East Third Street, New York, NY 10003). The opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 1, from 6 - 9 pm.
Hybridized, distorted bodies and materials communicate symbolic representations of sensations, as well as the impact repeated sensations may have on personal identity. For instance, in Patrick Bell’s ceramic sculpture, untitled, the artist fuses the body's external appearance with its inner workings, combining fragmented hands with a heart and other amorphous and somewhat grotesque physiological structures. This expression of the dichotomy between outer appearance and inner appearance visualizes dysmorphia and maladaptive coping strategies that make a lasting psychological and physical impact.
Patrick Bell,
untitled, 2024
Ceramic, glaze, paint, enamel
Similarly, in Isa Dorvillier’s, The Woman Who Knit Herself Into A Chair to Become Invisible, the artist fuses the body with furniture to reflect often hidden, internal experiences. Her soft sculpture represents the act of closing oneself off, symbolized by the body becoming an inanimate, passive, and solid structure. The slumped chair reflects the emotional and physical toll of societal pressures on women, showing how their bodies, along with domestic environments and traditions of feminine-coded labor, can become an expression of confinement and struggle. The transformation into an object reflects both the societal objectification of women as well as an internal desire to go unseen as a means of escape.
Isa Dorvillier,
The Woman Who Knit Herself Into A Chair To Become Invisible, 2019
Knit wool, armature wire, Polyfil, macrame cord
36 x 18 x 12 inches
Using surrealist fusions of humans, animals, the environment, and celestial bodies, Thalia Renaker conveys the vastness and interconnectedness of biodiversity and the universe. This mysterious interconnectedness points to the wondrousness and sublimity of what exists beyond our perception. In Don’t Be Scared, human figures are encompassed by and absorbed into an environment that collapses the real and the imaginary, outer space and deep sea, as well as amazement and fear.
Thalia Renaker, Don’t Be Scared, 2023
Acrylic on Canvas
Embracing these apparently conflicting yet coexisting truths, i can’t (un)see it invites viewers to explore the unknown, to confront the tensions between what we see and what lies beyond our perception. In doing so, it opens up a space for reflection on the psychological and emotional weight of these unseen realms, challenging us to navigate the ambiguity of both the internal and external worlds.
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About the Artists:
Patrick Bell received his BFA from Edinboro University in 2016 and pursued Ceramics at Wichita State University. He completed his MFA at Kent State University in 2020 and is now based in Baltimore. Bell is a Long-Term Resident at Baltimore Clayworks and teaches at MICA, Baltimore School for the Arts, Community College of Baltimore County, Howard Community College, and Columbia Art Center. His recent work examines mental illness and destructive self-soothing behaviors. More at www.patrickryanbell.com and @patbellart.
Cecilia Chiappini is a New York-based painter and poet. In her creative practice, Cecilia builds a lexicon of materials and material interaction. Working with textiles, paint, and gifted objects, she pushes these materials away from legibility into semi-unintelligible states that demand careful looking.
Isa Dorvillier is an artist and educator from New York City, working in Queens. She focuses on making urban public history and ecology education accessible. Dorvillier holds a BFA in Fiber from MICA (2021) and exhibited her solo show Riparian Rites at Psychic Readings Gallery (2024). She completed the Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice Training Program and leads walking tours with Jane’s Walk Festival, The Queens Memory Project, and Queens Public Library, where she also facilitates youth art programming.
Mira Goodman (b. 2001) is a painter and sculptor from New York. She earned an Honors degree in Visual Arts from Brown University (2024), with studies at Glasgow School of Art, RISD, and the Art Students League. Her work combines painting and sculpture to explore ephemeral experiences. Goodman exhibited solo shows at List Art Center and was featured in Brown’s Juried Student Exhibitions. She received the 2024 Gilbert Stuart Award and was an Artist Mentor at New Urban Arts.
Zach Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in Philadelphia. His work spans sculpture, drawing, and moving image. Hill has received the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and Illuminate the Arts Grant. He’s had residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, RAIR, Elsewhere Museum, and Stove Works. He teaches at Haverford College and founded Zach’s Crab Shack, a mobile queer art space. Hill curates exhibitions at Vox Populi, FJORD, and Icebox Project Space.
Kimin Kim uses flora as a symbolic vehicle to explore intersections of personal, cultural, and historical narratives. Inspired by Chong Rok Jip (Blue Deer Collection), a Korean poetic anthology, Kim creates liminal spaces of tension and transformation. Working with oil paint and pastel, they blur boundaries between fluidity and rigidity, representation and abstraction. Kim’s textured surfaces evoke displacement and longing, offering reflections on nature, impermanence, and the shifting relationship between environment and self.
Jared LeClaire is a performance artist and sculptor based in central New York. His work explores mortality through ephemeral happenings, using the human body, natural processes, and raw materials to reflect on life’s impermanence. His sculptures and performances emphasize time, gravity, and tension as active forces, transforming the invisible into shared visual experiences. LeClaire’s work seeks to expose the delicate balance between life and death, revealing the rhythms and vulnerabilities of existence.
Jesse Mineo (b. 1989) is a Sicilian-American and Nuyorican artist living in Queens, NY. He holds a BFA from NYU Tisch. Working across film, photography, sound, and assemblage, Mineo investigates distortion and the transition between analog and digital formats. His work builds atmospheric narratives, often blurring character and identity. Personal histories and social systems intertwine in his practice, reflecting on the impact of power structures on individual and collective identities.
Lilian Mühlenkamp (b. 1991, Germany) is a Berlin and Dortmund-based artist known for her large-scale abstract paintings. She earned her M.Ed. from TU Dortmund in 2019 and works as a Fine Arts teacher while maintaining her practice. Influenced by synaesthesia, Mühlenkamp’s work merges control and spontaneity. Fluid, vibrant forms evoke sensory experiences, inspired by her perception of color and movement. Recurring themes of water and organic flow invite viewers into a meditative, emotional engagement with abstraction.
Eve O’Shea is an artist based in New York City. She holds an AB in Modern Culture and Media and Visual Art from Brown University (2020). O’Shea has exhibited at Drama Gallery (Brooklyn), Good Children Gallery (New Orleans), and Brown’s Granoff Center. She received the Minnie Helen Hicks Prize for Visual Art and works at the American-Scandinavian Foundation producing exhibitions. Her interdisciplinary practice explores narrative, media, and the visual language of contemporary culture.
Thalia Tsai Renaker is an artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently based in Brooklyn. She is pursuing a BFA in Painting with a minor in Ceramics at Pratt Institute. Working with acrylic and oil, her paintings draw from automatic and surrealist traditions. Renaker’s work reflects on biodiversity, cosmic vastness, and human emotion, celebrating the beauty and interdependence of the natural world and the subconscious mind.
Maris Van Vlack is an interdisciplinary artist from Massachusetts specializing in textiles and painting. She holds a BFA in Textiles from RISD with a concentration in Drawing. Inspired by New England’s textile history, Van Vlack explores the boundaries between weaving and drawing. Her work has been exhibited at the U.S. Capitol, RISD Museum, NADA New York, and internationally. She’s been featured in The Boston Globe, Interior Design Magazine, and Warp + Weft Magazine.
About the Curators:
Ciaran Short is a multimedia artist, writer, and activist from New York City. His work explores New York culture, race, and masculinity. He is a Co-Founder of All Street Gallery, an art collective and gallery with locations in the East Village and Lower East Side, dedicated to showcasing emerging and underrepresented artists, often at the intersection of art and social justice. Short’s writing has appeared in The Independent, Newsday, and Honeysuckle Magazine. He holds a master’s degree in Media Studies from The New School. Through his work, he emphasizes art’s role in community building and cultural critique.
Eden Chinn is an artist, curator, and educator based in New York. Chinn is adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Media Arts program and previously led the Design Lab during a Research Residency at Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. She is a Teaching Artist at the New Museum, where she leads NewMu Teens, an LGBTQ youth program engaging with contemporary art and identity. She is the Co-Founder of All Street Gallery, an artist-run space in the East Village and Chinatown, dedicated to supporting emerging artists. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges education, research, and community-driven curatorial work, reflecting a commitment to fostering critical dialogue around representation, media, and personal narrative.
