PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH is a common refrain seen around paintings and sculptures in galleries and museums, yet while these works remain untainted by the fingers of the viewing public, we’ve all seduced and fondled them with our eyes. This is an intimate exhibition of artists whose work is so tactile, one can describe their haptic presence from sight alone.

Stanley Edmondson (b. 1962, Pasadena, CA) is a Los Angeles based artist whose singular ceramic based practice is deeply influenced by his close relationships to artists and mentors over the years such as Peter Voulkos, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, and his late father, Leonard Edmondson who was the Chairman of the Design Department at Otis Art Institute during California’s revolution in clay sculpture. Working predominantly with homemade clay, Edmondson embraces the Bauhaus practice of weaving craft with fine art and the technical challenges of fabrication. Recent exhibitions include Feeling Without Touching, Nicodim, New York (2023); Stanley's Circus, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2021, solo); Alchemy, Lefebvre et Fils, Paris (2018, solo); Clay for John Mason, South Willard, Los Angeles (2017, solo); Lifted Spirits, Los Angeles Arboretum, Arcadia (2015), and Outdoor Exhibition, Maloof Foundation, Rancho Cucamonga (2014). 

Chantal Khoury (b. 1986, New Brunswick, Canada) is of Lebanese descent and is based between Toronto and Montreal. She was recently honoured with the prestigious 2023 Joe Plaskett Award in Painting (a national accolade awarded to an outstanding Canadian painter), and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canadian Federation of University Women, and a spot in the ‘22/’23 RBC Emerging Artists Network at the Power Plant Contemporary Gallery. Permanent Collections include the Royal Bank of Canada, The Art Gallery of Guelph, and the University of New Brunswick, and notable exhibitions include Plural Contemporary Art Fair, Montreal (2023); Art Toronto (Canada’s Art Fair, 2023); Feeling Without Touching, Nicodim, New York (2023); I TIE THEM LOOSELY, Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles (2023, solo); I had the same thought, TAP Art Space, Montreal (2023, two-person exhibition); Holding Echoes, Michael Gibson Gallery, London (2022, solo); Cloth and Feather, Birch Contemporary, Toronto (2021, solo); Other People’s Gardens, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton (2020); Be/Longing, Gallery on Queen, New Brunswick (2018); Unstilled Egoes, University of New Brunswick (2014, solo). Khoury obtained her MFA from the University of Guelph (2021) and her BFA with Distinction from Concordia University
(2012).

Vika Prokopaviciute (b. 1983) is a Lithuanian-born painter based in Vienna. Her non-figurative paintings evolve from one canvas to the next, forming a network, a system. Each painting speculates on the previous one, offering another possible way to comprehend what we are looking at. The system adjusts itself during the painting process and leads to a highly associative, poetic, and dimensional image. Its painting space turns, bends, cuts open, zooms in and out, bringing our point of view into a state of constant flux. Recent exhibitions include Feeling Without Touching, Nicodim, New York (2023); Zero-sum, House of Spouse, Vienna (2023, solo); Terminus, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (2023); nEYEYEght, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon (2023); Van Look Award 2023: The Back Room, E-Werk, Freiburg (2023, solo); How exactly like the object, how beautiful! How exactly like the object, how ugly!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2022); Niche, Editorial, Vilnius (2022, solo); Odd Attractor, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (2021); Pale Echo, NEVVEN, Gothenburg (2021, solo).