Passages brings together a diverse group of artists whose works traverse the boundaries of medium, material, and meaning. Featuring painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, mixed-media sculpture, and photography, this exhibition explores the concept of transition—moments of change, flux, and becoming.

Gallery 1: Poetry of Place, Karen Allen and Jenn Wiggs 

Poetry of Place is a painting conversation between two artists, Karen Allen and Jenn Wiggs. 

BEACON ROOM Translucent Hues, Eileen Sackman

GALLERY 1 + Beacon Room: The Only Way is Through: Robin Adler

In The Only Way is Through, Adler experiments with the idea of disrupting the current frenetic cycle mirrored in the repetitive patterns of her work. Hers is a response to the chaotic cultural shift that we are living through right now. The scale is bigger reflecting the immensity of these troubled times.

Nest gathers a diverse collection of works by BAU Gallery artists, exploring themes of home, shelter, and creation. Spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media practices, the exhibition examines the idea of the “nest” as both a literal and metaphorical space—one of nurture, protection, and potential.

Interdisciplinary artist Iain Wall incorporates printmaking sensibilities into drawing, painting, and sculpture. Their work blends medieval art and British material culture, creating tablets and frames that meditate on gay love and life force, whether in solace or celebration. Wall explores visual framing, combining structure and content in multi-apertured narratives. Their recurring depiction of cobblestone and stained glass builds an ornamental, motivic vocabulary that connects labor, temporality, and human connection. Wall’s work seeks to question the nature of presentation, what it means to queer the outline, and the transformative power of objecthood—how pictorial weight and tangibility become testaments.

Gallery 1: Swallowing the Sun: Daniel Berlin

The sun has long been used as a metaphor in the history of art. In Daniel Berlin’s new show at BAU gallery, this metaphor is extended to reflect on the mind of the artist. Swallowing the Sun refers to acknowledging one’s mind as the ground of the work. In the sun’s fire, conceptuality is burnt off and what remains is the simplicity of uncluttered experience.

The show contains different groups of work in various media including painting, monoprints, watercolors, and sculpture, all of which speak to the notion of Swallowing the Sun. 

In This Place brings together a small group of artists whose works reflect on the relationships between environment, memory, and presence. Through painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, the exhibition explores how place shapes experience—both physically and emotionally—and how we, in turn, leave our mark upon it.

Each artist offers a distinct perspective on the meaning of place, whether through intimate studies of natural and built landscapes, abstract interpretations of atmosphere and sensation, or material explorations that anchor memory in form. Some works evoke the quiet familiarity of personal spaces, while others engage with the transience of movement, migration, and change. Together, they create a dialogue that blurs the line between the external world and our internal landscapes.

In a time when notions of belonging, rootedness, and connection feel increasingly complex, In This Place invites viewers to pause and reflect on their own sense of place—where they stand, where they’ve been, and where they are going.

Nansi T. Lent is a painter and photographer from Rhinebeck, NY, with a B.A. in Studio Art from Boston College and a Master’s in Visual Arts Administration from NYU. Starting as a photographer, she later turned to painting as a cathartic expression of the soul. Her recent photography reimagines her paintings.

She has exhibited widely in New York’s Hudson Valley and beyond, including The Katonah Museum of Art, The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, and Gallery 40, among others.

Gallery 1 + Beacon Room: the other world, Bob Barry 

The Other World is Bob Barry’s second exhibition of ceramic sculpture at BAU Gallery. Making a departure from his earlier floral fantasy sculptures, each creature, influenced by Pre-Columbian ceramics, serves as a metaphor to honor the spirit of an animal.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bob was the chairman of the art department at Long Island University, where he taught pottery and ceramic sculpture for over thirty years. Bob has exhibited domestically and abroad, with one-man shows as well as numerous group exhibitions, including the Dorsky Museum, the United Nations Gallery, WAAM, and The Gallery Ferer (Berlin). He has been awarded residencies in A.I.R. Vallauris (Vallauris, France), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, Maine) and Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Woodstock, NY). Bob was awarded the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation award for excellence in ceramic sculpture.