Interdisciplinary artist Iain Wall incorporates printmaking sensibilities into drawing, painting, and sculpture. Their work blends medieval art and British material culture, creating tablets and frames that meditate on gay love and life force, whether in solace or celebration. Wall explores visual framing, combining structure and content in multi-apertured narratives. Their recurring depiction of cobblestone and stained glass builds an ornamental, motivic vocabulary that connects labor, temporality, and human connection. Wall’s work seeks to question the nature of presentation, what it means to queer the outline, and the transformative power of objecthood—how pictorial weight and tangibility become testaments.

In This Place brings together a small group of artists whose works reflect on the relationships between environment, memory, and presence. Through painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, the exhibition explores how place shapes experience—both physically and emotionally—and how we, in turn, leave our mark upon it.

Each artist offers a distinct perspective on the meaning of place, whether through intimate studies of natural and built landscapes, abstract interpretations of atmosphere and sensation, or material explorations that anchor memory in form. Some works evoke the quiet familiarity of personal spaces, while others engage with the transience of movement, migration, and change. Together, they create a dialogue that blurs the line between the external world and our internal landscapes.

In a time when notions of belonging, rootedness, and connection feel increasingly complex, In This Place invites viewers to pause and reflect on their own sense of place—where they stand, where they’ve been, and where they are going.

Gallery 1: Swallowing the Sun: Daniel Berlin

The sun has long been used as a metaphor in the history of art. In Daniel Berlin’s new show at BAU gallery, this metaphor is extended to reflect on the mind of the artist. Swallowing the Sun refers to acknowledging one’s mind as the ground of the work. In the sun’s fire, conceptuality is burnt off and what remains is the simplicity of uncluttered experience.

The show contains different groups of work in various media including painting, monoprints, watercolors, and sculpture, all of which speak to the notion of Swallowing the Sun. 

Nest gathers a diverse collection of works by BAU Gallery artists, exploring themes of home, shelter, and creation. Spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media practices, the exhibition examines the idea of the “nest” as both a literal and metaphorical space—one of nurture, protection, and potential.

GALLERY 1 + Beacon Room: The Only Way is Through: Robin Adler

In The Only Way is Through, Adler experiments with the idea of disrupting the current frenetic cycle mirrored in the repetitive patterns of her work. Hers is a response to the chaotic cultural shift that we are living through right now. The scale is bigger reflecting the immensity of these troubled times.

BEACON ROOM Translucent Hues, Eileen Sackman

Gallery 1: Poetry of Place, Karen Allen and Jenn Wiggs 

Poetry of Place is a painting conversation between two artists, Karen Allen and Jenn Wiggs. 

Passages brings together a diverse group of artists whose works traverse the boundaries of medium, material, and meaning. Featuring painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, mixed-media sculpture, and photography, this exhibition explores the concept of transition—moments of change, flux, and becoming.

GALLERY 1 BAU Open First Prize Exhibition: Briana Babani

GALLERY 2 BAU Open Awardees: Irja Bodén and Choro Leslie Meyers

BEACON ROOM Reframing Memory, Pamela Vlahakis with guest artist Síle Marrinan

Opening Reception Second Saturday, February 8th, 3-5 pm. Exhibition ends Sunday, March 2nd

Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 pm or by appointment

Beacon Room: Reframing Memory, Pamela Vlahakis with guest artist Síle Marrinan. In this exhibition, two photographers have joined together to use visual storytelling to reimagine the memories of their mothers through the lens of their own family lives today.

GALLERY 1 BAU Open First Prize Exhibition: Briana Babani

GALLERY 2 BAU Open Awardees: Irja Bodén and Choro Leslie Meyers

In a world where change is the only constant, Fresh Start invites viewers to explore the transformative promise of beginnings. This exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who grapple with themes of renewal, hope, and the cyclical nature of life. Each work reflects a unique journey—whether through personal experiences, cultural narratives, or environmental shifts—inviting us to contemplate our own paths toward reinvention.

Beacon Room exhibition by Ilse Schreiber-Noll. Wood has always been more than just a medium to Ilse. It is a living connection to nature, history, and craft.

BAU Gallery proudly celebrates its 20th anniversary with its 237th consecutive exhibition, marking two decades of artistic innovation and community engagement.

Monochrome, a two person show of ceramics and photography featuring BAU artist, Joel Brown and invited guest artist, Onaje Benjamin.

One-person exhibition by Pamela Vlahakis, a photographer who lives and works in Westport CT. The driving force behind her work is her desire to demonstrate the beauty in places, people, and things that would otherwise seem ordinary.