BAD ART / Ceyda-Anne Altiok, Murray Heidt, Noah Milo, Serena Williamson / 9.6.2025 - 10.2.2025

Most artists know the pain of being asked to show their sketchbook to someone who expects each page to be a perfect, realized drawing, and the embarrassment of then having to reveal all the ugly working out, abandoned tests, doodles, and other mess that goes into every successful work. When did all that chaos get cut from the process of making something “good”? In the age of the internet especially, we’re all evaluating whether each piece we complete is worth posting, worth being seen, worth representing us. We’re alienated from the essential processes of improvement and experimentation–the necessary steps to greatness. This exhibition is a celebration of all the failures who never made it to our websites, our social media pages, our personal halls of fame, or our friends’ eyes. It’s time to show some work previously only seen on our parents’ fridges. Let’s get a little ugly with it.