Matriarch

Her presence is felt in her absence through the space she has cultivated. Refuge is sought in the warmth felt within family mementos and worn furniture. The rooms in the house exist both outside of and within you, as time collapses between your present adult self, and you the child upon her lap on the sofa. You know the rooms by heart, yet the colors and patterns on the curtains and furniture shift within your memories. Fragmented details of the home flesh out a more important image: a portrait of her, but also now, the person that you are becoming. The Matriarch becomes part of the home as this role is adapted, earned and permeated toward the home and all who inhabit it.

Artists Lindsay Martin Gryskewich and Rachael Zur make work that honors the layered realities and symbolism of home. Their two-person exhibition Matriarch explores the notion of home as a portrait of Mother, Grandmother, and/or Self--while home is also a holder of memory existing both as a physical place as well as within the mind. Gryskewich’s paintings use space, color, pattern and mixed media materials to weave histories of homes, her own and borrowed, into daydream-like spaces. Often, Gryskewich includes pictorial remnants of place claimed by the matriarchs in her family before her, as she questions how space shifts as she acquires this role in her family. Sourcing imagery from the homes of loved ones or visits to an estate sale or open house, Zur’s ceramic-like paintings depict domestic objects and their curious capacity to hold the remaining radiance and tenderness of the departed. Using materials with visual weight to them, her paintings ground ephemeral concepts into an artwork that is physically solid to pay homage to the residue of lives lived held in homes.

Together and independently the works by these artists speak to an echo of tenderness that abides in homes, one which illuminates a sacred quality to the care that takes place there. This exhibition honors the work of matriarchs present, past, and to become–through a combination of Gryskewich’s and Zur’s newest and current presented work in a playful comparative viewing experience.

June 6, 2026 - July 5, 2026