ArtYard is thrilled to announce two new exhibitions on view this summer — Brian House: Synchronizing Uncertainty and Ash Eliza Williams: The Dreams of Small Animals.
The exhibitions open with a free public reception on Saturday, June 21, followed by back-to-back artist talks on Sunday, June 22. Registration for these free events is online. The weekend also marks the opening of Patrick Warner: Art Studio Project, curated by Studio Route 29.
Brian House: Synchronizing Uncertainty (June 21 – Sept. 21)
In Synchronizing Uncertainty, artist Brian House invites visitors into a space populated with hundreds of electronic circuits generating periodic, oscillating signals — each pulses with its own light and synthesized sound. During the exhibition’s three-month span, the circuits attempt to find an elusive equilibrium — ever-changing as visitors move through the space, disrupting the system into a cascade of rhythms as it renegotiates polyrhythmic difference.
As part of Pulse-Coupled Oscillation networks, the circuits explore the phenomenon observed throughout nature and culture in the sounds of crickets, the lights of fireflies, the cells of your heart, a clapping audience, the lockstep of soldiers, or the chant of a protest. We synchronize into groups, but the process is never entirely complete or stable.
An artist talk with House is at 12:15 PM on Sunday, June 22. In this talk, the artist will discuss the exhibition and its conceptual and technical development. Processes of synchronization, beyond their implications for art and science, resonate with our own individuation in society and the politics of group formation.
Ash Eliza Williams: The Dreams of Small Animals (June. 21 – Oct. 5)
In The Dreams of Small Animals, Ash Eliza Williams investigates the perceptual experiences of other creatures. A grouping of paintings arranged in a film sequence format describes the imagined dreams of a beetle, a frog, a flower, and a bird. Unexpected and sometimes mysterious relationships between paintings and sculptures evoke interspecies expressions of desire, fear, and curiosity.
The exhibition also includes field notes, color studies, and a video installation created by “The Sensing Lab,” a collaborative group composed of Ash Eliza Williams, animator and video artist Meredith Leich, and sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello. The Pond explores the sensory world of a frog and its scientific researchers through a series of investigations composed of sound, video, and performance.
Williams will lead a gallery walk at 11 AM on Sunday, June 22. Registration is recommended.
Patrick Warner: Art Studio Project (June 21 – Oct. 5)
Patrick Warner’s florals and portraits are made in conversation with historical paintings of the Dutch Golden Age and French Impressionism. A long-time lover of Van Gogh, the works on view in Art Studio Project began with Van Gogh’s sunflowers. Warner paints swiftly and confidently, presenting us with works in which paint’s material unruliness is foregrounded in heavy drips and liquidity. Born in Chicago, Patrick Warner lives in New Jersey and began painting at Studio Route 29 in 2024.
ArtYard’s gallery hours are 11 AM to 5 PM Wednesday to Sunday and until 7 PM on Thursday. To learn more, visit www.artyard.org.
