Small Works: Textures and Tactility

EXHIBITION: December 5–January 4, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, December 6, 4-6pm

FOUNDERS GALLERY

This show aims to emphasize the sensory richness of materials—highlighting how texture, layering, and surface can deepen our connection to a piece of art. These small-scale works engage the viewer’s sense of touch, even if only visually. Whether through heavily worked surfaces, woven materials, embossed forms, or tactile media like fabric, wax, mixed media, or ceramics, the exhibition focuses on artworks that beg to be closely inspected, inviting viewers into a more intimate and sensory-driven experience.

ABOUT THE JUROR
This presentation is juried by Susan Eley, Owner and Director of Susan Eley Fine Art founded in 2006. Conceived as a salon-style gallery, SEFA NYC was initially situated in an Upper West Side townhouse in Manhattan. Currently, SEFA operates its main gallery in Hudson in Upstate New York. Before establishing the Gallery, Susan Eisner Eley was an editor and writer for national and regional publications featuring articles on fine art, dance and travel. Eley worked in public relations and education at the Morgan Library & Museum, NY, the Mayor’s Art Commission of the City of New York and interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. She is also a former professional ballet dancer with the Feld Ballet, NY. Eley has a BA in Art History from Brown University and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.