Mercurial : Tami Fuller & Laura Valkwitch
Schedule
Sat Apr 11 2026 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
334 Connecticut street, Buffalo, NY, United States, New York 14213 | Buffalo, NY
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Work by Laura Valkwitch and Tami Fuller converge through their shared exploration of identity, emotion, and transformation through form. Both artists draw on deeply personal narratives toengage with the intangible, capturing fleeting internal states and rendering them into tangible forms that provoke contemplation, empathy, and connection.
Valkwitch’s portraits, self-portraits, cloud paintings and sculptural works embody the fluidity of identity. Her work abstracts the familiar, drawing viewers into close encounters with these
ephemeral forms. By zooming in, texture, movement, and mood are brought forward, transforming fleeting moments into something intimate and enduring. Laura’s approach reframes these forms and bodies as more than more representations of weather. They become mirrors of inner states—charged with memory, emotion, and a quiet, atmospheric intensity. Like
the sky, ever-changing and layered with hidden meanings, Valkwitch’s subjects - both human faces and atmospheric forms - are expressive, alive with emotional charge. Her clouds drift in
calm, meditative stillness or gather into brooding, psychological masses that resonate with themes of natural disaster, war, and human impact. Influenced by Color Field painting and the luminous intensity of the sublime, Laura Valkwitch
moves between soft gradients of paint and the immediacy of drawing. Layered hues and delicate mark-making create immersive atmospheres that invite contemplation and reveal
moments of vulnerability and introspection, where subtle shifts in expression speak to an interior state in motion. Through this, Valkwitch invites us to witness the dynamic, evolving nature of
selfhood, where emotional and atmospheric conditions shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
Fuller’s work, too, is a study in transformation, though hers takes shape through the tactile medium of fiber, wood, steel, and thread. Rooted in the spirit of survivorship, her sculptures weave together darkness and light, inviting the viewer into an intimate, unspoken dialogue. Her process is regenerative, weaving together new shapes and pulling apart old structures so they can be reformed, redeemed and reckoned with in new frameworks. Moving her personal shadows farther and farther from source into conscious view through studio practice, her process of creation is akin to shedding skin over and over; new layers provoking new
reflections, irrevocably capturing artifacts of abstracted portraiture and self immolation along the way. Each narrative formed through intense personal reflection, some taking years to reach final iteration, with deeply hidden layers of intention and intuition, her work has a quiet power that both provokes and soothes.
Her works, breathing with presence, hold space for contradictions. With poise, dignity, and an undercurrent of defiance, she invites the viewer into a relationship with the unspoken narrative beneath her work. Balancing the tension of weaving and the weight of psychological exploration, she brings solidity and form to shifting thoughts and a ballast to her mercurial nature.
Valkwitch and Fuller’s practices are intimately connected by their shared commitment to exploring the unseen and a contemplation of the emotional and psychological forces that shape our inner worlds. As artists, educators, and mothers, they embody multiple roles and identities that demand an almost ethereal flexibility, constantly moving from one to the next without fracture: crossing the divides to connect their ideas to reality. Their work reflects the constantly shifting, sometimes contradictory nature of identity, inviting us to contemplate how we navigate and express our multifaceted selves.
Their art, through its mark-making, weaving, sculpting, and painting, captures the essence of that movement, allowing us to connect with their internal landscapes and, in turn, reflect on our
own. In this exhibition, we are reminded of the shifting nature of our own selves and the complexity of perception, memory, and feeling.
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Where is it happening?
334 Connecticut street, Buffalo, NY, United States, New York 14213Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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