Treefall Studio is thrilled to announce its first group exhibition, Sifting Sunbeams We Feel the Earth, curated by Bethani Williams. The exhibition illuminates the interplay of organic and digital, permanence and transience, craft and concept weaving together to create an experience that is at once intimate and expansive. The exhibition will be on view from February 21 – May 18, 2025. The opening reception will be on Friday, February 21, from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
Sifting Sunbeams We Feel the Earth creates a conduit for nature, light, and the ineffable energy of femininity. The exhibition features the work of the Treefall studio artists Molly Aubry, Heather Couch, Isabel Gouveia, Natalie Hou, Eloise Janssen, and Michelle A. M. Miller—artists whose practices embrace material experimentation, environmental consciousness, and an intuitive dialogue with the organic world. Each piece embodies a delicate balance of strength and subtlety, exploring themes of transformation, interconnectedness, and the traces we leave behind.
Molly Aubry’s work moves between the natural and the digital, mining the tension between organic materials and computational aesthetics to conjure artifacts from a world where the boundaries between the two dissolve. Heather Couch, whose practice is rooted in ceramic sculpture and installation, considers materiality and form as vessels for memory and collective experience. Isabel Gouveia’s Mined series employs brushless painting techniques and layered sedimentation to mimic geological transformations, a meditation on the impact of environmental change.
Natalie Hou examines the evolution of pictorial communication in the digital age, referencing the pixelated language of ASCII art, emoji, and computer-generated imagery. Her work dissects the shifting ways we encode meaning in a visually saturated world. Eloise Janssen approaches waste as an archaeological record, reframing discarded materials as artifacts of contemporary culture that reveal social, economic, and environmental narratives. Michelle A. M. Miller’s works ground the exhibition in personal and collective memory, invoking the rhythms of time, nature, and human experience through material and gesture. Embedding crushed oyster shells and salvaged materials into her handmade paperworks, she invokes cycles of decay and renewal.
Sifting Sunbeams We Feel the Earth suggests both an act of searching and a state of receptivity, a quiet witnessing of transformation and emergence. In an era marked by rapid consumption and impermanence, these works ask us to slow down, to sift through the layers, and to feel the weight of presence.