Ochi is pleased to present Second nature, a group exhibition featuring works by Brittany Fanning, Matthew F Fisher, Elijah Ford, Emily Marchand, Andy Mister, Maggie Shafran, Polly Shindler, Sam Shoemaker, Ian Stanton, and Anna Valdez. The exhibition will be on view at Ochi, located at 119 Lewis Street in Ketchum, Idaho from June 13 through August 1.

Second nature gathers a group of artists whose works reveal the deep entanglement of memory, daily life, and the natural world. Across paintings, sculptures, and ceramics, the exhibition explores the artists’ instinctual need to create with place as their muse. Andy Mister’s pastel and acrylic snapshots of domestic life focus on everyday flowers in a jar on a windowsill. Meanwhile, interior and exterior worlds collapse into one another in the paintings of Brittany Fanning, Polly Shindler, and Anna Valdez. Elijah Ford and Ian Stanton’s clouds fleetingly shape shift, folding together reflection and wonder, while Matthew F Fisher and Maggie Shafran’s paintings consider shifting perspectives. Emily Marchand’s large companion vessels celebrate the often-overlooked labor of pollinators, positioning her lush, hand-painted ceramics as elegies to a fragile ecological balance, and Sam Shoemaker’s mushroom sculptures introduce the mythology of adaptation and survival.

Through considered observation and surreal improvisation, the artists of Second nature instinctually embed the natural world into their works–not as a static backdrop but a living, breathing presence within memory, routine, and imagination. Whether tied to home, studio, ocean, or mountain, the places we carry within us contain abundant narratives.