Trace Element brings together the photography-based work of artists George Kimmerling and Linda Lauro-Lazin in an exhibition that offers a moving meditation on natural cycles, the multisensory experience of plants, and the ability to find hope in the darkest days. Kimmerling's photographs are from his 2025 series "…the vitality of what will be…," created while wandering gardens in January looking for plants that had held their own against whatever winter hurled at them. As winter wore on, the project became a way to cope with a growing post-inaugural despondence and see the world on a scale larger than the daily news cycle. Lauro-Lazin's work in Trace Element began in 2020 on the eve of the pandemic, during her Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, where she examined the ephemeral nature of certain night-blooming flowers and transfigures the blurred edge between blossoming and fading. Her work here includes archival pigment prints and interactive animations.

George Kimmerling uses photography to inquire about our experience and perception of place, the construction of memory and identity, and the relationship between public and private spheres. He earned his MFA in photography at RISD, attended the Whitney Independent Study program, and has had residencies at PS1/MoMA and the MacDowell Colony. His work has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt, the New Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among numerous venues in the U.S. and internationally. Linda Lauro-Lazin is a visual artist, an educator, and a technologist, developing a vernacular of digital mark-making and abstraction that conflates analog and digital painting. She is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Digital Arts in the School of Art at Pratt Institute. Lauro-Lazin is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency and Fondation Karolyi Residency. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at BAU Gallery, the Knockdown Center, and the Dorsky Museum. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute and an MA from New York Institute of Technology.