The Crystal Chandeliers Light Up the Paintings on Your Walls
Matt Bollinger
Samantha Joy Groff
Frank Spidale
Jewelya Coffey
Pete Driessen
Curated by Aaron Spangler
July 23 - September 26
Artist Reception: Saturday, July 25, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Matt Bollinger
Matt Bollinger is a visual artist working across various mediums such as painting, animation, sculpture and music. Bollinger’s paintings hover between comfort and unease, where familiar interiors and everyday figures feel slightly out of place. Working with a muted palette, flattened space, and loosely rendered forms, his images often suggest a quiet disconnection—people sharing space but not quite connecting, rooms that feel composed yet unsettled. There’s a tension running through the work between surface and substance: spaces that carry a sense of order or refinement while holding an undercurrent of isolation, ambiguity, or emotional distance. His paintings linger in that space where appearances remain intact, but something more complicated quietly pushes through.
His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Zürcher Gallery, New York / Paris; South Bend Museum of Art, Indiana and M+B, California, and his animations have been included in film festivals and screenings in the US and Europe. Bollinger’s work can be found in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri; Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Canada.
Matt Bollinger, Scroll, 2026, Flashe and acrylic on burlap, 24 x 20 in.
Samantha Joy Groff
Samantha Joy Groff is a painter from rural Pennsylvania, raised in a Mennonite community, whose work explores the tension between restraint and desire. Drawing from rural life and its traditions, she contrasts conservative values with more contemporary ideas around sexuality, identity, and power. Groff received her MFA from Yale School of Art and earned a dual undergraduate degree from Parsons School of Design in integrated fashion design and film studies.
www.samanthajoygroff.com
Samantha Joy Groff, Hunting Season, 2025, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 62 × 72 in.
Frank Spidale
Frank Spidale is a Chicago-based painter whose work focuses on abstraction, built up through layers of color, gesture, and revision. His paintings carry a sense of time—marks are added, covered, and reworked, leaving behind traces that never fully disappear. He received his B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and his M.F.A. from The American University in Washington, D.C. in 1997.
Frank Spidale, Earthship, 2026, Oil on canvas, 54x54 in, 137.16 x 137.16 cm
Jewelya Coffey
Jewelya Coffey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lincoln, Nebraska, who makes two-dimensional and three-dimensional work. Her colorful, highly symbolic pieces play with themes of memory, grief, religion, rural life, growing up in the Ozarks, and explore the god-haunted image. Pushing the boundaries of what a drawing can be, she hopes to capture the spirit of drawing across many mediums.
Jewelya Coffey, Winter Dreams & Spring Yearning, 2026, Monotype with colored pencil on paper, 37 x 50 inches
Pete Driessen
Pete Driessen is a Minneapolis-based multipractice visual artist. A painter, sculptor, curator, and cultural producer, Driessen creates conceptual paintings, found object installations, interdisciplinary sculpture projects, and participatory public art that explores the visceral connections of social, spatial, and material dynamics.
Driessen received his MFA in Visual Studies at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT; a Post Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design from The Portfolio Center, Atlanta, GA; a BA in Studio Arts from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN; and studied Visual Communication at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design