MIA BROWNELL, KAT CHAMBERLIN, LEXA WALSH:

Catskill Art Space (CAS) is pleased to present three new exhibitions by Kat Chamberlin, Mia Brownell, and Lexa Walsh. They will remain on view through December 28, 2025. Working across painting, installation, ceramics, and social practice, the three artists each present deeply immersive and thought-provoking projects that examine power, value, identity, and cultural symbolism.

Mia Brownell’s still-life paintings of food reference both 17th-century Dutch realism and the swirling forms of molecular imaging. Her work considers food as more than sustenance, examining how it is grown, processed, marketed, and consumed, and how it functions as a cultural signifier. Through illusionistic depictions, she probes questions of identity, values, and the parallels between microbiology and the social constructs that shape who we are.

Kat Chamberlin presents a large-scale installation that transforms the gallery with yellow carpet and suspended glass sculptures, paired with a film featuring her own daughter in exploration in play, authority and domesticity. Her work explores motherhood as a metaphor for authoritarian governance and the negotiation of intimacy and individuality. Using relational materials such as, fragile glass, soft bronze, supple walnut, sharp aluminum; her installations invite touch, intimacy, and confrontation, asking viewers to consider vulnerability, power, and dependence.

Lexa Walsh’s new body of work, Breathe with Me Grieve with Me Heave with Me, responds to the fraught simultaneity of the 2024 Summer Olympics and ongoing global conflict. Grappling with nationalism, loss, and resistance, Walsh creates ceramic and mixed media works that serve as both memorials and provocations. Her Epitaph series evokes mausoleum covers made of glazed ceramic, while her Black Cloud series presents poufy ceramic forms, some dripping with chandelier crystals. Blending humor, grief, and resilience, Walsh reflects on decoration, mourning, and the persistence of joy in dark times.