Gallery Sonder is proud to present Keeping Things Whole, a group exhibition featuring works by Peter Alexander, Adam Belt, Caitlin Carney, Cairo Dwek, Kaori Fukuyama, Monroe Isenberg, Anthony James, Gary Lang, Andy Moses, Eric Orr, Mark Strand, and Lachlan Turczan.
Taking its title from the poem Keeping Things Whole by poet and featured artist Mark Strand, the exhibition explores how our presence shapes the spaces we inhabit. Strand's poem suggests that simply occupying space changes it—that every presence creates a corresponding absence. Building from this idea, the exhibition considers how meaning emerges through what is revealed, concealed, interrupted, or left unresolved.
Across painting, sculpture, and installation, the artists investigate the relationship between presence and absence, material and immaterial experience, and the shifting nature of perception itself. Rather than presenting wholeness as something fixed or complete, Keeping Things Whole proposes that coherence is often formed through ambiguity, change, and participation. The works invite viewers to become active participants, discovering how movement, light, reflection, and perspective continually reshape what is seen.
Drawing from traditions including California Light and Space, Minimalism, Color Field painting, and contemporary abstraction, the exhibition brings together artists who use light, color, transparency, reflection, and spatial intervention to expand how we experience form. Throughout the galleries, surfaces glow, dissolve, refract, and transform in response to changing conditions, creating encounters that shift as viewers move through the space.
Several artists engage directly with light as both material and subject. Gary Lang's concentric fields of color create immersive visual experiences that seem to pulse and expand beyond the canvas. Caitlin Carney's luminous paintings hover between opacity and transparency, while Andy Moses creates dynamic surfaces where light appears to move through layered striations of color. In Peter Alexander's iconic resin sculptures, transparency and color become primary agents of form, challenging conventional distinctions between solid object and atmosphere.
Other artists explore perception through reflection, space, and physical intervention. Anthony James extends sculptural form into seemingly infinite dimensions through mirrored geometries, while Eric Orr transforms architectural references into meditations on openness, limitation, and scale. Lachlan Turczan uses light, water, and environmental systems to create immersive installations that blur the boundaries between artwork, viewer, and site.
The exhibition also considers systems of connection and transformation. Cairo Dwek's layered compositions combine organic and technological forms, mapping networks of accumulation, exchange, and interdependence. Kaori Fukuyama investigates the instability of visual certainty through subtle shifts in material and fabrication, while Adam Belt's contemplative works draw from both scientific observation and spiritual inquiry. Monroe Isenberg's process-driven practice embraces repetition and seriality, allowing order to emerge gradually through accumulation and variation.
Featured artist Mark Strand extends the concerns of his poetry into visual form. His works assemble silhouettes, intervals, and fragments into compositions that suggest completeness while remaining open-ended, echoing the exhibition's central idea that wholeness is not a fixed state but an ongoing process of perception and discovery.
Together, the artists in Keeping Things Whole create a space where seeing becomes an active experience. Through light, color, reflection, transparency, and transformation, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how meaning emerges not only from what is present, but also from what remains unseen.
Artists: Peter Alexander, Adam Belt, Caitlin Carney, Cairo Dwek, Kaori Fukuyama, Monroe Isenberg, Anthony James, Gary Lang, Andy Moses, Eric Orr, Mark Strand, and Lachlan Turczan.
