"Chronique Scandaleuse" features three emerging artist-friends Wynter Rhoads, Emma Schwartz, and Angelica Starcovic. The exhibition deconstructs personal religious indoctrinations involved in the trio’s identity formations and gender prescriptions as AFABs. The resulting show is a siren’s song, luring viewers to a daydream of femme pleasure and desire unbound from patriarchal implication. Join us to eat the fruit of our joys and sorrows in this ethereal exposition. From kitschy cuteness to the depths of human desire, "Chronique Scandaleuse" leaves no tender detail unscathed. Rhoads is an artist obsessed with sexuality, grief, and poverty.

Their work aims to explore the intersections of these broad topics through personal and shared experiences. They look to build community around themself to rectify the grief that is present in many aspects of their life and art. The topics they are exploring bring to the surface thoughts of morality, empathy, influence, and identity.

Rhoads is interested in posing questions to the audience, working through these questions through process, and navigating the reality of questions that they cannot answer.

Schwartz utilizes painting and soft sculpture to convey the deconstruction of internal and external forms of religious indoctrination that attempt to control sexuality, desire, and ethics. She looks to her singular and collective experiences to convey these expansive observations and their ignominious effects on the development of personal morals and yearnings. She features communal and solitary settings where inquiry, care, and mutual consciousness-raising occur.

Starcovic’s work is deeply rooted in the sense of fear she finds linked to the expression of femininity under the heteronormative binary. Drawing on the history of femme representation in art and the pressures to perform gender, she masticates her own experiences into raw depictions of her body against male desire and violence. The resulting aesthetics of bodily horror serve as metaphors for psychological wounding and act as sites of empathy for viewers to become voyeurs of her humanity rather than her sexuality.

This group exhibition is on display through May 12th, 2024.