So It Goes

So It Goes, our 2025 Summer Exhibition, features 43 artists in and around Maxon Mills throughout the summer. Our show’s focus this year uses the refrain of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five to explore the desensitized ways in which we cope with recurring horrors. The artists invited for this show have chosen methods like play, reflection, and scale to awaken us from that desensitized state and into a fever dream. Among the works shown are stained glass windows referencing private property signs across rural America by Siara Berry; Lin Qiqing’s naturally dyed, hand-spun paper yarn and paper collage recording the passage of time and movement with the body; religious costumes inspired by John Brendan Guinan’s Catholic anarchist upbringing; portraits by Yomi Orimoloye speaking to the disconnect between the self and documents — like IDs — that identify us; a video sculpture starring Ollie Goss as a goose who protests at a town hall meeting; intricate tapestries of aerial landscapes during the 2022 Pakistani megafloods by Saberah Malik; and, on the top floor, a triptych by Rosabel Rosalind depicting a post-apocalyptic San Fernando Valley as the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. So it goes.