Questioning the Margins brings together four Austin artists who turn their gaze toward the edges - not as sites of exclusion, but as territories rich with creative possibility and wonder. What forms of memory, knowledge and wonder exist in the spaces in the distance?
Working across different mediums of acrylic, oil, encaustic with photographic imagery, and clay, these artists investigate the liminal spaces between figure and ground, memory and forgetting, comfort and unrest.
What lives at the margins often holds the most vital truths. Through processes of layering, building up surfaces, and using repeated gestures that push and pull, cover and reveal, each artist excavates their personal histories while exploring how marginality - spatial, temporal, conceptual - generates meaning. Memory becomes fragile and yet dynamic. The work is both contemplative and spirited, moving fluidly between curiosity and disquiet. The pauses shape the story and voids become active. Depth emerges not from a single statement, but through accumulation.
Questioning the Margins invites viewers to reconsider where they place their attention, to find wonder in the overlooked, and to recognize that the periphery is never merely peripheral—it is where meaning gathers, where the past whispers forward, and where curiosity finds its most fertile ground.
