Adorning the Hollow is an intimate exploration of connection, absence, and the fragile architecture of memory. Through ceramics, sculpture, photography and painting, the exhibition invites viewers into emotional interiors. These are quiet rooms shaped by longing, tenderness, and the lingering imprint of what once was.

Each work embraces the form of love’s presence and departure: a hand-formed vessel that remembers the shape of touch, a sculpture that bends under the weight of silence, a painting that captures the light cast on a figure ready to be seen. These pieces act as emotional reliquaries and objects that hold, mourn, and reflect.

Heartbreak and memory function as connective threads, structuring the emotional and conceptual fabric of the show. Ceramics crack but hold; sculptures lean, reaching toward forms that are no longer there. Paint layers mimic time which are built up, scraped away and exposed again.

In this space, the work is both altar and absence. The body becomes ghost. The moon returns each night, bearing witness.

Adorning the Hollow asks not just what is lost, but what remains in its wake and how the act of making becomes a way of remembering.

Adorning the Hollow features work from Bill Kremer, Ron Hahlen, Ken Bichell, Maggie Connolly, Tamsie Ringler, Scott Steder, Christopher Schulte, Shelby Cole, Miklos Simon, Andonia Giannakouros, Evan Hume, Matthew Paul Isaacson, Jenni Brant, Paul Marek, and Troy Aiken.

Show curated by Troy Aiken (Artist &Assistant Professor of Art, Clarke University).