floor sleeping

Erin Ehren and Frances Adair Mckenzie

June 4 - 27, 2026
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 4, 5-8pm

Gallery Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm

Floor Sleeping

Tenderness is akin to sensuality, as in the ability to sense. The desire to sense. The obligation to sense. The respect to sense. The adoration to sense. The sense to sense.

Objects are not people, so they do not communicate as we do. We fall short in sensing their thingliness according to our own thinginess. How to move beyond projection into perception? How to attune oneself to the sensual for the sake of an object, for the sake of the sensory expanded, for the sake of tenderness? 

How do we tend to the desires of image and object? 

The two person exhibition Floor Sleeping brings together the work of New York/Richmond based sculptor Erin Ehren and Montreal/Richmond based sculptor and animator Frances Adair Mckenzie. The artists’ sculptural language comes together through shared approaches toward tactile materiality, formal abstraction, and a fascination for surface. 

Adair’s current body of sculptural work looks to surface and materiality in relation to ideas of image based technology, excavation and the mutability of form. Ehren´s current work is an act of yearning for material honesty, tactile dissonance, and a unification of surface that surpasses the abstract into the unknowable sublime.