How do you clothe a shadow? By mending an eclipse.

On view in the main gallery over the month of April is a group exhibition of five artists that share artistic sensibilities. The exhibition serves as poetic meditation on the verse “a time to rend and a time to sew.” These seemingly opposing actions - tearing and mending - are inherently interdependent. Something must first be constructed before it can be torn apart, just as sewing is the act of bringing disparate pieces together.

Each artist approaches the phrase with their own imagery and relationship to the timeless processes of quilting, patchwork, sewing or mending; acts of addition and subtraction. Through this exploration of materials, themes of community, identity, and loss emerge.

Featuring Columbus-based artists Christine D’Epiro Abbott, Katherine Adkins, Karen Albanese Campbell, Cat Mallioux, and Tanya Pirasteh, How do you clothe a shadow? By Mending an Eclipse invites viewers to reflect on the tension and harmony between fragmentation and repair.