Shape|Shift

Jordan Hogan
Zoe Potter
Stella Bronson
Cloe Short

September 03 - 26, 2026
Opening Reception, Thursday, September 03, 5-8pm

Gallery Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm

Shape|Shift is a group exhibition featuring works by Jordan Hogan, Zoe Potter, Stella Bronson, and Cloe Short. The exhibition interrogates distortion, femininity, and the unspoken, through materiality.

The artists contrast the industrial with the feminine through their use of materials in order to emphasize the history and context in which they’re used. This creates space for the artists to scrutinize the perception of femininity as it has been modernly constructed.

ARTIST BIOS // STATEMENTS

Stella Bronson earned her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2021 with a concentration in Sculpture & Installation. Stella Bronson romanticizes mundane objects and practices of rural life. She transforms construction materials and recycled products into large scale sculpture. Bronson explores concepts of nature, integrated with the human experience. Taking inspiration from discarded materials found in the land, she is fueled by observation and the particular interest in the way these objects, may they be plant or manufactured, sit in a landscape. A materials history not only informs the content of her work, but holds a story unseen to the naked eye.

Over the years, her work has been shown at Method Gallery, The Vestibule, 9th & Thomas, Bumbershoot, Port Angeles Sculpture Park, and The Museum Of Museums in Seattle, WA. She was also granted an honorable mention in the 2021 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture awards through the International Sculpture Center, featured in Sculpture Magazine, volume 41 no.1.

Zoe Potter is a Seattle based artist. She recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 2025. At the end of her tenure in the program, Potter was twice nominated for the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and was granted a scholarship to attend Pilchuck School of Glass.

Her work oscillates between representation and abstraction to dissect themes of vulnerability and femininity. She uses contrasting materials like glass, steel, latex, and hair creating unnatural connections in order to bring the viewer back to their own body; a twinge of unease, a reminder of the way in which our bodies are perceived, or the way we perceive others.

While she has shown work in numerous group exhibitions, her thesis exhibition, Almost, a series of paintings focused on the way in which photography and place influences the Self, prompted a re-exhibition of several of these works at the 2025 Seattle Art Fair. Potter will be presenting a new body of work in her first solo exhibition with Mini Mart City Park in October 2026.

Jordan Hogan is a Seattle-based artist and dancer. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture and a minor in Art History from University of Oregon in 2025. During her time at school, she was a part of several group shows in addition to her BFA thesis exhibition entitled Merging.

They are fascinated with the taboo, the dirty and that which is unspoken, intangible, but deeply felt. These themes are explored through distinctive manners in her drawing and sculptural practices. The intuitive drawings are a collection of curves and contours leading to nowhere in particular and aim to represent nothing specific, occasionally devolving into scribbles. The sculptures merge diametrically opposed materials of bricks and broken pieces of wood with their used stripper outfits. Materials that both carry immense histories that can only be imagined, never known.

Cloe Caroljane Short is a Seattle-based artist who recently received their Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, as well as their Bachelor of Liberal Studies from Arizona State University. Short graduated summa and magna cum laude respectively, and was nominated twice for the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Since their BFA solo show in April, Short has shown work at Mini Mart City Park, Base Camp Studio, and Actualize Gallery.

Short is preoccupied with the relationship between beauty and violence. They often return to the idea of beauty as a way of distracting from separation which manifests in their repeated use ornamental motifs. In constant oscillation between researching and making, Short attempts to make sense of the violent present moment by working with the materials that have built our industrialized world–steel and concrete. These materials tell stories about the unique relationship between our built environment, our bodies, and America's ability to enact profound violence.