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.

Chasing Light is an interdisciplinary meditation on the nature of time. The work explores the desire for origin, balance, and the interconnectedness of all things. Through encaustic painting, long-exposure photography, and sculpture, Pierce explores the infusion of light, its mapping over time, and its temporal qualities of both mystery and discovery. Many of the works feature a circle or portal—a recurring theme for Pierce—inviting us inward while invoking harmony and inclusivity. Chasing Light aligns introspection and environmental awareness, echoing a deep connection to nature and to finding the still point within. 

About the artist

A multidisciplinary artist, Soli Pierce is recognized for her immersive sound and sculptural installations, as well as her iconic encaustic paintings and photo-based work. Most recently her work, with collaborator Bruce Odland, was featured at arts space KinoSaito, where she was awarded a 2025 residency, and the Hammond Museum. Pierce has taught photography at the New York University and has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.

The artists in Ephemeral explore impermanence, change, and the fleeting nature of experience through painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media. The work captures moments in transition—light shifting across a surface, a form dissolving, a trace left behind, an image that’s soon a memory—and invites viewers to pause and witness the subtle, the impermanent, the in-between. Ephemeral is a meditation on what we hold onto, what fades away, and the art of embracing imperfection and impermanence.

 Participating artists

Bob Barry, Daniel Berlin, Eileen Sackman, George Kimmerling, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Joan Harmon, Joel Brown, Karen Allen, Linda Lauro-Lazin, Nansi T. Lent, Nataliya Hines, Pamela Zaremba, Robin Adler, and Soli Pierce.

Winner of the inaugural BAU Gallery 2025 Solo Competition, Margaret Inga Urías’ installation of drawings and engraved glass traces the unfolding of existence across time—from primordial dust and cosmic explosions to Earth’s geological formations and the evolution of life. Based on her careful research in geology and astronomy, and executed in fine detail, Urías’ work charts the interconnectedness of cosmologies both grand and personal. The artist invites viewers to consider their place within this deep continuum asking, “How are we, brief travelers, bound to both the ancient and the infinite?”

About the artist

Margaret Inga Urías has exhibited in venues across New York, including the DVAA Gallery, Equity Gallery, and Bronx Museum of the Arts, as well as at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Her public-art commissions include murals in Brooklyn and New York City, and she is in residence this year at Yellow Studio. Urías is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2013) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2011). She holds an MS from Pratt Institute and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.