Upstate Art Weekend Exhibition: Soli Pierce, “Chasing Light”
Chasing Light is an interdisciplinary meditation on the nature of time. The work explores the desire for origin, balance, and the interconnectedness of all things. Through encaustic painting, long-exposure photography, and sculpture, Pierce explores the infusion of light, its mapping over time, and its temporal qualities of both mystery and discovery. Many of the works feature a circle or portal—a recurring theme for Pierce—inviting us inward while invoking harmony and inclusivity. Chasing Light aligns introspection and environmental awareness, echoing a deep connection to nature and to finding the still point within.
About the artist
A multidisciplinary artist, Soli Pierce is recognized for her immersive sound and sculptural installations, as well as her iconic encaustic paintings and photo-based work. Most recently her work, with collaborator Bruce Odland, was featured at arts space KinoSaito, where she was awarded a 2025 residency, and the Hammond Museum. Pierce has taught photography at the New York University and has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.
Upstate Art Weekend Exhibition: Margaret Inga Urías, “Vanishing Hour”
Winner of the inaugural BAU Gallery 2025 Solo Competition, Margaret Inga Urías’ installation of drawings and engraved glass traces the unfolding of existence across time—from primordial dust and cosmic explosions to Earth’s geological formations and the evolution of life. Based on her careful research in geology and astronomy, and executed in fine detail, Urías’ work charts the interconnectedness of cosmologies both grand and personal. The artist invites viewers to consider their place within this deep continuum asking, “How are we, brief travelers, bound to both the ancient and the infinite?”
About the artist
Margaret Inga Urías has exhibited in venues across New York, including the DVAA Gallery, Equity Gallery, and Bronx Museum of the Arts, as well as at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Her public-art commissions include murals in Brooklyn and New York City, and she is in residence this year at Yellow Studio. Urías is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2013) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2011). She holds an MS from Pratt Institute and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Upstate Art Weekend Exhibition: “Ephemeral”
The artists in Ephemeral explore impermanence, change, and the fleeting nature of experience through painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media. The work captures moments in transition—light shifting across a surface, a form dissolving, a trace left behind, an image that’s soon a memory—and invites viewers to pause and witness the subtle, the impermanent, the in-between. Ephemeral is a meditation on what we hold onto, what fades away, and the art of embracing imperfection and impermanence.
Participating artists
Robin Adler, Karen Allen, Bob Barry, Daniel Berlin, Joan Harmon, Nataliya Hines, George Kimmerling, Linda Lauro-Lazin, Nansi T. Lent, Soli Pierce, Eileen Sackman, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Pamela Zaremba.
Upstate Art Weekend Workshop: Make Your Own Zine
In the spirit of our show, Ephemeral, artist Karen Allen will lead a zine-making workshop in which participants will use collage, markers, paint and other media and to create simple one-of-kind zines. All materials will be provided. Just bring your creative spirit!
Upstate Art Weekend Artist Talk: Margaret Inga Urías
Winner of the inaugural BAU Gallery 2025 Solo Competition, Margaret Inga Urías’ installation of drawings and engraved glass traces the unfolding of existence across time—from primordial dust and cosmic explosions to Earth’s geological formations and the evolution of life. Based on her careful research in geology and astronomy, and executed in fine detail, Urías’ work charts the interconnectedness of cosmologies both grand and personal. The artist invites viewers to consider their place within this deep continuum asking, “How are we, brief travelers, bound to both the ancient and the infinite?”
About the artist: Margaret Inga Urías has exhibited in venues across New York, including the DVAA Gallery, Equity Gallery, and Bronx Museum of the Arts, as well as at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Her public-art commissions include murals in Brooklyn and New York City, and she is in residence this year at Yellow Studio. Urías is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2013) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2011). She holds an MS from Pratt Institute and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Upstate Art Weekend Artist Talk: Soli Pierce
Soli Pierce’s Beacon Room exhibition, Chasing Light is an interdisciplinary meditation on the nature of time. The work explores the desire for origin, balance, and the interconnectedness of all things. Through encaustic painting, long-exposure photography, and sculpture, Pierce explores the infusion of light, its mapping over time, and its temporal qualities of both mystery and discovery. Many of the works feature a circle or portal—a recurring theme for Pierce—inviting us inward while invoking harmony and inclusivity. Chasing Light aligns introspection and environmental awareness, echoing a deep connection to nature and to finding the still point within.
About the artist; A multidisciplinary artist, Soli Pierce is recognized for her immersive sound and sculptural installations, as well as her iconic encaustic paintings and photo-based work. Most recently her work, with collaborator Bruce Odland, was featured at arts space KinoSaito, where she was awarded a 2025 residency, and the Hammond Museum. Pierce has taught photography at the New York University and has exhibited Throughout the United States and internationally.
Upstate Art Weekend Workshop: “What Do You See?” with Robin Adler
BAU Gallery artists Robin Adler, Karen Allen, George Kimmerling and others will host visitors in a dialogue about the diverse exhibitions on view during Upstate Art Weekend. Through guided questions and prompts, participants will have the chance to spend time considering the work, the themes it explores, the issues it may evoke, and the broader meaning of art in our lives and communities.
Upstate Art Weekend Workshop: “What Do You See?” with George Kimmerling
BAU Gallery artists Robin Adler, Karen Allen, George Kimmerling and others will host visitors in a dialogue about the diverse exhibitions on view during Upstate Art Weekend. Through guided questions and prompts, participants will have the chance to spend time considering the work, the themes it explores, the issues it may evoke, and the broader meaning of art in our lives and communities.
Upstate Art Weekend Workshop: “What Do You See?” with Karen Allen
BAU Gallery artists Robin Adler, Karen Allen, George Kimmerling and others will host visitors in a dialogue about the diverse exhibitions on view during Upstate Art Weekend. Through guided questions and prompts, participants will have the chance to spend time considering the work, the themes it explores, the issues it may evoke, and the broader meaning of art in our lives and communities.
Upstate Art Weekend Reception: An Evening at BAU
Join artists, collectors, and friends for a relaxed evening of art, live music, conversation, and refreshment. View the gallery’s three new exhibitions: Margaret Inga Urías, Vanishing Hour, Soli Pierce: Chasing Light, and a group exhibition, Ephemeral. Enjoy locally produced beverages from Industrial Arts Brewing Company and the creative floral arrangements of Raven Rose.