Between Myth and Memory
Dec 11, 2025 – Jan 17, 2026
Manuela Caicedo, Felice Caivano, Terra Keck, Farangiz Yusupova
Rooted in the study of myth, history, spirituality, and cultural memory, the artists in the exhibition channel the energy of specific sources to arrive at new conceptions. Within their own visual language, each artist is a conduit through which a certain magic flows. Inspired by stories and figures real and imagined, Manuela Caicedo, Felice Caivano, Terra Keck and Farangiz Yusupova reference, build upon, and reenvision their respective subjects.
Within the exhibition, the sense of where and when is hard to place. The scenes, subjects, and in some cases, materials, are from a different time or place or even planet. Yet the works are utterly contemporary in their methodologies. A doily, a shape borrowed from Matisse, a pitched roof, and a swan are coordinates that orient the viewer.
Each artist’s practice, characterized by sustained investigation and recurrent motifs, is like mapping a dreamscape. Drawn to certain images or ideas, the artists repeat and revisit; the why of it all is often revealed later. Manuela Caicedo’s Theater of Death (Segundo Acto) series features imagined female characters, which she calls dragonas. They emerge from her subconscious, as well as from specific references, such as the story of “Leda and the Swan.” The dragonas evolve slightly from painting to painting, getting subsequently smaller in a dance-like procession toward death and decay, set against a hazy, dreamlike Colombian landscape. Farangiz Yusupova’s abstract compositions materialize in a similar manner, combining intuition with nods to Modernist painting, Islamic and Soviet architecture, and Central Asian women’s crafts. Through her layered approach, which includes stenciling lace and hand-making paper from recycled materials, she processes family mementos and memories in an act of preservation and acknowledgment of loss.
Many questions remain unanswered; the pursuit of uncertainty is central. For Felice Caivano, who works with handicrafts sourced from antique stores and estate sales, it is often impossible to decipher the provenance of an object. It is precisely this anonymity of labor that lends her abstract, formalist sculptures their mystique, while her use of color aims to offer something bright amidst the uncertainty of our current social and political moment. Terra Keck’s work embraces the beauty and spirituality of uncertainty through scenes inspired by cosmic and supernatural events. Her subtractive approach to drawing using powdered graphite and watercolor instills her work with a sense of ambiguity that feels at once eerie and peaceful.
Manuela Caicedo b. Bogotá, Colombia (1993). In 2022, she earned her degree in Visual Arts from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she received a meritorious thesis award for her first film, Les dejé fresas en mi bolsillo mientras llega el día en que se apaguen los soles. In 2024, she completed an MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art, supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and the Academy Scholar Award. That same year, she completed an artist residency at the University of Notre Dame in Kylemore, Ireland, and was awarded the Chubb Fellowship—the highest recognition granted by the New York Academy of Art to its alumni—which culminated in the 2025 Chubb Fellows Show. In 2025, she presented Las Dragonas at ARTBO | Salas. She is currently exhibiting Mínima Expresión at Galería Policroma in Medellín, participated in Chubb Fellows and Friends at the Green Family Art Foundation, and will exhibit at Art Basel for the second consecutive year as part of the Chubb Fellowship.
Felice Caivano is a visual artist living in Western Massachusetts. She has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, an Artist-in-Residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, and has received a Fellowship in Sculpture from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous regional and national exhibitions. Caivano is a professor and chair of the Visual Art Department at Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA, and was the Fine Arts Curator at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, for many years. She, earned a BFA from the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT, and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Terra Keck is an artist, curator, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and her BFA from Ball State University. She is a partner at Field Projects Gallery in the Chelsea Arts District of Manhattan and cohosts the comedy-educational podcast “Witch, Yes!” Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts and can be found in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and California. She is a regular contributing writer to Artspiel, Impulse Magazine, and Artefuse.
Farangiz Yusupova is a painter who was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and immigrated to the U.S. in 2014. She holds a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Her work was exhibited in numerous group shows in New York, such as at 205 Hudson Gallery, FIT Arts and Design Gallery, New York Live Arts, ChaShaMa, as well as Bootshaus in Berlin. Most recently, Farangiz had a solo show at John St Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Farangiz is a participant in NYFA’s 2022 Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program. In 2022, her work was published in Khôra Magazine, Issues 13 – 16. She was the artist in residence at the LINE Residency in Austin, TX in 2023. Farangiz currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is pursuing her MFA degree at Hunter College.
Please join us for a reception on Saturday, December 13th from 6-8pm.
