Art Show: Between Forces

Between Forces brings together four artists whose practices explore systems we move through daily — natural, emotional, and constructed — and asks us to notice the quiet tension within them.

Artist Reception Feb 13, 2026 7-10pm

Open Gallery Feb 22, 1-3pm

Gerry Santora works at the intersection of physical and digital image-making, layering memory, technology, and materiality. His prints and gelatin transfers occupy a liminal space where photographs become paintings and images gain texture, weight, and presence.

Tim Leeming turns his gaze toward Chicago’s transportation infrastructure — expressways, CTA stations, viaducts — framing them with reverence. Gilded like religious icons, these familiar spaces become sacred sites, reminding us that ritual and meaning exist within the mundane rhythms of daily movement.

Heidi Scheleski’s layered mixed-media paintings explore connection — between people, between spiritual concepts, between inner and outer worlds. Drawing on symbols like yin-yang and the red thread of destiny, her work invites reflection on love, longing, memory, and the unseen forces binding us together.

Yasmin Ali’s intuitive, textured abstractions respond to natural systems — trees, roots, wind, weight — as both external forces and emotional landscapes. Her process allows tension and stillness to coexist, creating spaces where chaos softens into balance.

Together, these artists reveal the poetry hidden in systems we often overlook — roads, roots, relationships, images — and ask us to slow down, notice, and inhabit the space between force and stillness.