Alchemists brings together four artists, Linda Casbon, Laurel Marx, Ted Thirlby, and Grace Bakst Wapner, who each work in different mediums but share a distinct ability to transform the humble and everyday into something quietly powerful and ethereal. Though their practices are widely varied, each artist channels a personal, spiritual alchemy, transforming raw materials into works that are refined, contemplative, and visually arresting. Geometry, whether literal or implied, runs through the show as a connective thread, grounding the ephemeral in structure and anchoring each artist's poetic sensibility.

Linda Casbon’s ceramic sculptures approach language through form, gesture, and spatial rhythm. Her works, which range from individual objects to larger groupings, operate like visual poems: metaphoric, unnameable, yet deeply familiar. Casbon explores the threshold between two and three dimensions, grounding her work in the body while reaching toward the intangible. Her pieces are vessels of presence and perception, where painted illusion and sculptural form converge in a quietly profound conversation.

Laurel Marx’s photographic works are meditations on light, balance, and reduction. Through the elimination of extraneous detail, Marx creates images that reveal a larger mystery. Lines in her compositions serve as visual thresholds, offering a quiet but decisive invitation into deeper narrative space. Her practice is rooted in attentiveness, a reverence for the way light can briefly and beautifully transform the world around us.

Ted Thirlby’s mixed media works on found plywood are acts of rescue, reflection, and reverence. Working with discarded, weathered materials, Thirlby embraces the histories embedded in their surfaces, their cracks, chips, and imperfections, and responds with gestures that seek redemption. His work questions the nature of authorship, exploring the exploring materiality and the evolving relationship between human intention and elemental force.

Grace Bakst Wapner works with fabric and handmade paper to explore abstract ideas through color, texture, and form. Her process is fluid and dialogic, allowing the material to shape meaning as much as the other way around. Themes such as inheritance, transformation, and perception surface subtly through each piece, which feels both deliberate and intuitively assembled. Her works are soft yet strong, intimate yet expansive, each one its own language.

In Alchemists, each artist acts as a kind of transmuter, guiding raw substance into elevated expression. The result is a show that feels at once grounded and otherworldly, tactile and transcendent.