Voices Beyond Boundaries
Bridges Built in Brushstrokes
Voices Beyond Boundaries: Bridges Built in Brushstrokes at Sasse Museum of Art presents fifteen contemporary artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media. This exhibition demonstrates that meaningful connection emerges not from erasing difference, but from creating spaces where distinct voices can coexist and converse. Despite their varied approaches, these artists share deep concerns about light as both medium and metaphor, environmental consciousness, and process-driven practices. The exhibition unfolds through three conceptual sections: Voices of Disruption examines the impact of change and transformation; Voices of What Remains explores what survives and carries forward through deconstruction; and Voices of Reflection offers a contemplative threshold—a visionary doorway to empowerment and purpose. Curated by Aazam Irilian and drawn from the collaborative spirit of Startup Studio, an artist community gathering since the early days of the pandemic, this exhibition honors both individual artistic identities and the profound connections that emerge through sustained creative dialogue.
Here, artists fragment, reconstruct, and reimagine through bold materiality and experimental processes. Large-scale abstractions, prismatic color fields, and layered constructions challenge viewers to see beyond familiar forms. Walker, Irilian, Azari, Corallo-Titus, and Shepard employ paint, plexiglass, collage, and mixed media to dismantle and rebuild visual language itself. Tange’s LED installation may anchor this space, bringing light as bothmedium and metaphor into the dialogue.
Delbar Azari I Lava2 I Plexiglass on wood I 30 x 60 x 3 in
Delbar Azari I Sunset I Plexiglass on wood I 24 x 18 x 3 in
Delbar Azari I Verdant I Plexiglass on wood I 36 x 36 x 3 in
Delbar Azari I Cotton Candy I Plexiglass on wood I 36 x 36 x 3 in
Aazam Irilian I First Dance of Light I 48 X 24 in I acrylic and oil on canvas
Aazam Irilian I Soaring Harmonics I 48 X 24 in I acrylic and oil on canvas
Aazam Irilian I Prisms of Infinite I Diptych 36 X 48 in I acrylic and oil on canvas
Aazam Irilian I Fractured Time I Diptych 48 X 24 in I acrylic and oil on canvas
Laura Corallo-Titus. I Icthys in the Garden I oil on canvas I 24 x 22 x 1.5 in
Laura Corallo-Titus. I Psychedelic Remains. I oil on canvas I 40 x 38 x 2 in
Laura Corallo-Titus. I Disrupture I oil on canvas I 40 x 36 x 2 in
Christine Walker I Linger I oil on canvas I. 40 x 60 x 1.5 in
Christine Walker I Skedaddle. I Oil on canvas I 40 x 60 x 1.5 in
Katherine Filice and Aline Mare document aftermath: burned forests, abandoned industrial spaces, landscapes marked by human and natural transformation. Through buried canvases and silvered photographs, they bear witness to what persists after disruption, suggesting that loss itself can become a shared language
Katherine Filice I The Falling, The Rising I Oil, ink, earth and paper on buried canvas I 52 x 40 in
Katherine Filice I Burnt Scar No. 4 I Ink, paper, branches, stucco, on buried canvas I 22 x 28 x 2.5 in
Katherine Filice I The Sugar Pine Was Silent, While the Raven Mocked The Wind I Ink and sculpted paper I 36.5 x 44 x 2 in
Katherine Filice I TNo Way Down I oil and ink on raw canvas I 60 x 42 in
Katherine Filice I With Only The Moonlight To Guide Me (No. 2) I Ink, mica, chalk and sculpted paper on canvas I 45 x 39 x 1.5 in
Aline Mare I In the Workshop I Mixed media on silvered paper I 36 x 48 in
Aline Mare I Ghost in the Machine I Mixed media on silvered paper I 36 x 48 in
Aline Mare I Puba I mixed media on paper I 28 x 34 in
Aline Mare I Stormy Weather I painted metal I 24 x 36 in
This intimate space gathers artists who work through sustained observation, personal memory, and cultural artifacts. Botanical studies, skyward meditations, nostalgic game boards, deconstructed assemblages, and photographic explorations invite close lookingand contemplation. Ruane, Mendelsohn-Bass, Brown, Friedlander, Milgrim, Chahbazian, and Heffler reveal how attention to detail—whether in nature, childhood objects, or fragments of culture—creates its own form of understanding across difference. Together, these artistsprove that boundaries are not barriers but thresholds—places where different ways of seeing can meet, exchange, and ultimately enrich one another without loss of individual identity.
Charlie Milgrim I Urban Blues I Archival pigment print mounted on panel I 18 x 24 x 1 in
Charlie Milgrim I Cap Bomb Nest I Archival pigment print mounted on panel I 18 x 24 x 1 in
Ada Pullini Brown I Golden Line Through The Empyrean I oil with gold leaf on panel I 24 Tondo X 2 in
Ada Pullini Brown I Golden Rings of The Empyrean I oil with gold leaf on panel I 24 Tondo X 2 in
Ada Pullini Brown I Golden Ring Through the Empyrean I Oil on canvas I 48 x 42 x 3 in
Arminée Chahbazian I Gold Mine I graphite & glass beads on paper & Dura-lar I 30 x 25 x 1 in
Arminée Chahbazian I Here It Comes I graphite & glass beads on paper & Dura-lar I 27 x 35 x 1 in
Arminée Chahbazian I Uprooted I graphite & glass beads on paper & Dura-lar I 35 x 27 x 1 in
Catherine Ruane I Old Olive I Charcoal & Graphite 45 x 31 in
Catherine Ruane I placeholder-tree #3 I Charcoal & Graphite 45 x 31 in
Catherine Ruane I Sierra Madre Palm I Charcoal & Graphite 45 x 31 in
Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass I King Me I oil on canvas I 40 x 30 in
Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass I The Game of Life I Oil on canvas I 60 x 40 in
Charlie Milgrim I Molten Dyslexia I Archival pigment print mounted on panel I 18 x 24 x 1 in
Charlie Milgrim I Mystery Nest I Archival pigment print mounted on panel I 18 x 24 x 1 in
Charlie Milgrim I Bunker I Archival pigment print mounted on panel I 18 x 24 x 1 in
Charlie Milgrim I Tangled Up in Blue I Archival pigment print mounted on panel I 18 x 24 x 1 in
Shelley Heffler I 20-20 I Vinyl advertising banner & wire I 24 x 28 x 3 in
Shelley Heffler I Eyes On You I Vinyl advertising banner & wire I 30 x 40 x 3 in
Shelley Heffler I Icons I Vinyl advertising banner & wire I 42 x 60 x 3 in
Ellen Friedlander I Hiding IV I Unique hand-cut archival pigment print I 14.5 x 11.5 x 1.5 in
Ellen Friedlander I Hiding V I Unique hand-cut archival pigment print I 14.5 x 11.5 x 1.5 in
Ellen Friedlander I Whispers to the Self I Mixed Media I 26 x 20.75 x 1.25 in
Ellen Friedlander I Finding PeaceI Unique hand-cut archival pigment print I 14.5 x 11.5 x 1.5 in
Ellen Friedlander I Being I Unique hand-cut digital pinhole archival pigment print I 24.5 x21.75 x 2in
Ellen Friedlander I Process of Becoming I Unique hand-cut digital pinhole archival pigment print I 25.5 x 63 x 2 in
Ellen Friedlander I Raw I Unique hand-cut archival pigment print I 14.5 x 11.5 x 1.5 in
Emily Shepard I Spring Tide Pulling I Collage and mixed media on panel I 36 x 48 x 1.75 in
Emily Shepard I Upwelling I Collage and mixed media on panel I 36 x 48 x 1.75 in
Emily Shepard I The Channel Between I Collage and mixed media on panel I 24 x 24 x 1.75 in
Kayla Tange I Could Dance Forever-I Thought #1 I wood plexiglass glass acrylic paint polyester plastic metal wood plexiglass glass acrylic paint I 11 x 12 x 11 in
Kayla Tange I No Record I wood, plexiglass, led, steel I 16 x 24 x 2 in
Kayla Tange I I lost my country - I lost my home - I lost my mother tongue I plexiglass paint nylon I 6 1⁄4 x 12 x 14 in