Featuring Leslie Baum, Xavier Ford-Legrand, CJ Shaw, Tatiana Sky, and Shanie Tomassini

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Not a nostalgic reenactment, but a recontextualization, Pure Moods becomes a framework through which to explore the visual, spatial, and emotional architecture of “mood.” This exhibition proposes an emotional range of the ethereal: mood as material, mood as memory, mood as myth. Mood as technology—sound waves, gradients, reverbs—or as spirit, ineffable and expansive. Channeling a shared language of plasticity, mystery, and resonance, the works invite a kind of experiential drift. A surrender to tone, texture, and atmospheric pull that collectively asks: What does it mean to be moved—not by narrative or logic, but by tone, temperature, texture?

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The selections on view engage mood as a mode of transmission and translation of emotions–memory, longing, or escape that often resist clarity in favor of affective density. What emerges is an inquiry into how mood operates across media. How it coats, absorbs, distorts, or reveals; exposing that liminal space between presence and escape where ambiance functions both as sensory balm and as psychic terrain.  Can we escape into materiality as an act of presence and resistance?