UPCOMING

Laurie Peek
GINKGO!

Christine Randolph
RUIN-NATION

Lynn Stein
THE PEOPLE YOU THINK YOU KNOW

January 17 - March 1, 2026

Main Gallery @ Building 35

Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 17th
5 - 7pm
The gallery will be open only during these hours on the 17th

Gallery Hours:
Thursdays, 4 - 8pm
Fridays, 2 - 5pm
Beginning Sunday, January 18th
Saturdays & Sundays: 1 - 5pm

GINKGO!
Laurie Peek

These images, which all feature ginkgo leaves and plants from Laurie Peek’s garden, are part of an ongoing series of photographs dedicated to her son and all those who’ve lost a loved one. By naming each image for a departed individual, she honors them and keeps their memory alive with a tangible tribute.

As part of her process, she composites lens-based photos of plants; she incorporates various alternative processes, including cyanotypes, anthotypes, and lumens. After printing the images on semi-translucent vellum, Peek then gilds the backs with silver- or gold-toned metallic leaf and varnishes both sides, giving the prints a metallic sheen reminiscent of sacred art.

 With this memorializing project, she brings together her long-time fascination with layers, abstraction, ambiguity, and the natural world.

 In preparation for this show, Peek shared, “Long revered in East Asian culture as a symbol of resilience, longevity, and wisdom, the Ginkgo tree’s ability to persist and survive extremely adverse conditions, including the bombing of Hiroshima, inspires me to believe in self-renewal even in the face of personal tragedy.”

Artist Biography: Laurie Peek is an award-winning visual artist who’s been a photojournalist, educator, librarian, and fine artist. With an MFA in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY), and positions at the George Eastman Museum and the Arts Students League, she’s been widely exhibiting her images in the US and abroad. She was a 2023 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist in Klompching Gallery’s 2024 Fresh, and twice recognized as an International Garden Photographer of the Year, sponsored by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Peek’s work is in the collections of the Fine Art Museum of Houston, Paterson Museum (NJ), Center for Photography at Woodstock (Kingston, NY), Center (Santa Fe, NM), and Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY), as well as the private collections of Paula Tognarelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

RUIN-NATION
Christine Randolph

Christine Randolph is a New York-based artist and licensed art therapist whose work investigates the unconscious through intuitive drawing. Her process is rooted in spontaneity; she often begins with scribbles or doodles, drawing with closed eyes or her non-dominant hand to bypass conscious control. Inspired by psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott’s “squiggle” technique, her drawings give form to internal characters and dreamlike narratives that reflect both personal and collective struggle.

Politics and social upheaval, intertwined with personal dramas, fuel the imagination and drive creativity. The art process is a source of calm and soothing as well as catharsis in the release of outrage and grief. Creative excavation of darkness illuminates and informs. It is a compelling antidote to dissociation, despair, and apathy. Formidable as it is, darkness yields hope and love.

Artist Biography: Chris Randolph studied with Richard Pousette-Dart at Sarah Lawrence College and received an MPS in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute. She currently is an Art Therapist for Music for Life in Nyack. She has shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, Garrison Art Center, Hudson Valley MOCA, ROCA, and others. She is currently represented by Vanderplas Gallery, NYC.

The People You Think You Know
Lynn Stein

The first thing one notices about Lynn Stein’s work is how she goes beyond the surface and imbues her figures with history and dreamlike qualities. The figures depicted are very much friends she has created for herself, sourced from images of found photographs.

In The People You Think You Know, Stein works in series and creates her art with a passion for exploring what makes us unique. She paints what she wants, what she needs, and who and what she wants to be. As a painter and vocalist, Stein’s art forms overlap. The canvas and stage serve as a grounding for the conversation. Both contain drama, dynamics, tempo, and shared experience.

Artist Biography: Lynn Stein began painting professionally in 2000 and has been featured in galleries in the tri-state area and in NYC with Jim Kempner Gallery and AHA Gallery. She previously served for 16 years as the Curator and Artistic Director at one of the largest multi-arts nonprofit organizations at the time in upstate NY. Stein has also enjoyed a career as a jazz vocalist, participating in jazz festivals, recording albums, and performing on live radio, including WNYC-FM. 

JULIE MAUSKOP
Surveilling the Subliminal

Curated by Jonathan Shorr

 An Exhibition of Paintings Exploring the Invisible Forces Beneath Perception

January 17 - March 1, 2026

Harris Gallery @ Building 35

Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 17th
5 - 7pm
The gallery will be open only during these hours on the 17th

Gallery Hours:
Thursdays, 4 - 8pm
Fridays, 2 - 5pm
Beginning Sunday, January 18th
Saturdays & Sundays: 1 - 5pm

Garner Arts Center presents a body of evocative paintings by Julie Mauskop, Surveilling the Subliminal—works that listen to the whispers behind the mind’s closed doors, that watch the flicker of thought before it becomes language, that catch the shadow of sensation before it learns its own name. In Mauskop’s hands, the invisible begins to look back.                                                                                                     

Across these canvases, human beings, flowers, creatures, fruit, eyes, pillows, and dreamlike objects cluster and bloom in gentle, luminous harmonies. Each painting feels caught mid-movement, as though a figure—or a sensation—were in the throes of a divine dance of beingness.                                                                                                                      

Mauskop is a colorist of rare sensitivity.  Her subtle wrist movements are palpable, her gestures tender but unafraid. She dares to place unmapped inner territory directly onto the canvas. Light areas push forward like breath; veiled forms drift backward like memory. Imagery recalls organs, petals, bodies, noodle-like fingers—alien, yet intimately familiar. What emerges is a new pictorial language, one that dissolves the histories of symbols while liberating them into fresh, vibrating forms.                     

Surveilling the Subliminal names the tension that runs through our contemporary condition: the observation and measurement of what lies beneath awareness, the tracking of micro-gestures, emotional residues, unspoken impulses. In advertising, politics, social media, and AI, the subconscious has become a site of extraction—our attention, hesitations, glances, and tiny reactions monitored for what they involuntarily reveal. Mauskop neither condemns nor embraces this reality; instead, she transforms it. Her paintings become sensitive instruments, detecting the micro-currents of sensation, intuition, and instinct that usually escape notice. They stage a choreography of subtle disruptions—familiar shapes that refuse naming, déjà-vu forms that hover just beyond retrieval.
                                                                                                                                           
These works are less about the literal image and more about what is felt in the instant before thinking.  Julie is interested in the signals we emit without intending to—the existential residue, the intuitive flicker, the subconscious leak, observation without thought. Viewers may feel sensations ranging from empowerment to arousal, from mystery to bliss. As in dreams—where Julie often finds her imagery—these paintings pull us into a perceptual space where the private interior becomes palpable, and the unseen stands close enough to breathe.                                  

Surreal freedom, Matissean simplicity, nature’s organic symmetry, and the visceral energies of the human body coalesce, creating dreamscapes that feel more real than life. Her works reveal the threshold between paradisiacal and earthly realms, between stillness and transformation. You can sense the muscles contracting, the metamorphosis building, the shift between states—a reminder that change is inevitable, continuous, shared.                                                                                                                     

This exhibition invites us into an expanded mode of perception. It asks us to surrender to subtlety, to dwell in the space between recognition and invention, to let ourselves blush at beauty and mystery. It is a treasure hunt of forms and phenomena, a playground of possibilities, an escape into a world where consciousness becomes tenderly observable. To stand before these paintings is to feel their presence in the flesh—an intimacy no screen can replicate.                                                                            

Surveilling the Subliminal opens a portal. Step in. Look—and be witnessed by—the unseen.

JOHN MORTON

Minisceongo Overlay

GARNER Arts Center unveils John Morton’s sonic tribute to a storied waterway.

GARNER Arts Center proudly announces the official opening of Minisceongo Overlay, a semi-permanent outdoor sound installation by acclaimed composer and sound artist, John Morton. Situated on a pedestrian walkway and commercial bridge overlooking the Minisceongo Creek within the GARNER Historic District complex, this immersive work invites visitors to experience the creek as both a musical instrument and conduit to the voice of nature.