Reality Is Only Your Perception featuring Chris Stewart, Marla Ziegler, Kelsey Irvin, Adam Ball, Damián Suárez, and Shawn Smith, explores when familiar images and materials resist easy interpretation and perception shifts from passive recognition to active inquiry. Chris Stewart works in the space between representation and abstraction, using layered gestures and shifting color fields to capture emotional and atmospheric states rather than fixed places. His paintings suggest landscapes that feel familiar yet unresolved, shaped as much by memory and mood as by physical geography. Extending beyond the canvas through all-over compositions and three-dimensional elements placed around the paintings, Stewart complicates how the viewer approaches the work, turning perception into an active experience that unfolds across space.
