(salt: for anyone who ever lost someone) by Hawona Sullivan Janzen
April 24 – May 31, 2025
Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present: (salt: for anyone who ever lost someone), new work by Hawona Sullivan Janzen.
She needs to talk to you about salt. When her pandemic fever dreams compelled her to investigate the hidden properties of salt, Hawona Sullivan Janzen discovered the uncanny: connections between her ancestor’s enslavement, global spiritual practices, and the veil between this life and the great beyond.
Through material explorations, ancestral portraits, and live and recorded performances (salt: for anyone who has ever lost someone) comes into itself as one part installation, one part interrogation, and one part a story of coming home.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 25, 4-7pm
PERFORMANCE & ARTIST TALK: Sunday, May 18, 2pm
To the River: New Drawings by Joyce Lyon
March 13 – April 19, 2025
Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present To the River, an exhibition of new oil stick drawings by Joyce Lyon. The river is the Tiber / il Tevere, which passes below the Umbrian town in Italy where the artist spends time each year. In these large-scale oil stick works, Lyon responds to an unusual aqua color of the water – is it an effect of light, or sediment or something shifting in the environment? The road leading to the river is Roman, more than 2,000 years old. Ivy grows up many of the trees, altering their profile when seen against a bright sky. She meditates on the ancient history of this place and its present life and on the ability of drawn and verbal languages to communicate experience.
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 15, 4–6pm
ARTIST’S TALK: Sunday, March 30, 2–3pm
MEET THE ARTIST: Saturday, April 19, 3-6pm
Sund (Notes From the Sea)
MOIRA BATEMAN: JANUARY 30 THROUGH MARCH 8, 2025
Form+Content Gallery is proud to present Sund (Notes From the Sea), new mixed media and textile works by Moira Bateman.
The exhibition explores environmental impacts of human activity from an ecocentric perspective that draws from Bateman’s summer 2024 residency in Ålvik, Norway. The work features the sea’s currents and tides, whales and underwater noise pollution, and a “big bag”.
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, 4 to 6 pm