October at R2 Gallery

“Saiopor” represents the first exhibition devoted primarily to exhibiting Chris Hassig’s 20-year fictional mapmaking project. Mapmaking and its imaginative possibilities have been a constant interest in his art practice since the seventh grade. The featured work depicts the city of Ralesis, capital of a fictional country called Saiopor.

“Shadow Entanglements” features Jim Harris and Vanessa Porras. Jim Harris’ attention once pointed outward towards incredible places and people, but he has had to learn to turn his observation inward. That inner terrain is convoluted, rugged as any place stamped in his passport.

Vanessa Porras’ “Entanglements” series explores heredity through patterns and linework found in hair and nature, and now transformed into abstract prints inspired by undulations, topography, braids and lineage.