September 12 – October 17, 2026

“The Parting of the Ways” is a series of photographs made in Wyoming that examines the layered histories embedded in the landscapes of the American Plains. Along the Oregon Trail, Shafer encounters rock faces marked by the inscriptions of white settlers alongside and, at times, directly over pre-existing petroglyphs of the Shoshone, Arapaho, and other Indigenous peoples. These surfaces become a kind of palimpsest, where marks accumulate over generations and record encounters between different peoples and divergent understandings of the land. The resulting images hold a tension between what remains visible and what has been obscured: settlers’ names are often immediately legible, while Indigenous markings may be weathered, partially covered, or difficult to recognize.

September 12 – October 17, 2026

reception between 2-5pm and continue through October 17 at as-is.

Celio says of her artworks that they “manipulate perception to create fantastical iterations in which the artificial and the natural fuse to become newly impossible realities.” Often referencing the crisis-level event of environmental degradation that is our current condition, “the artworks,” she continues, “conjure seemingly mundane situations that have been artificially altered or supercharged.” In the varied array of artistic expressions that follow, Celio weaves together “disparate components and techniques while always alluding to humanity’s impact upon natural ecosystems.”

Species In Danger is a multi-year project begun in 2023, comprising graphite drawings centered on animals in Southern California listed as federally endangered. Each work pairs an endangered species with the human-made causes of its decline and a sociocultural element that Celio proposes more rightly deserves to go “extinct.” Her goal is to ultimately create a work for each of the 54 species on the list, tracing the intertwined fates of human beings and other animal species.