A True Thing That Stays Secret (September 28, 2024 - November 2, 2024) is a group exhibit at Troost Gardens featuring work by Erin Dodson, Alex Skorija, Leah Tacha and Katherine Toler. The exhibition takes its title from the text of an article by Alina Stefanescu, on the aesthetic merits of the ellipse in poetry, prose, and translation. She affectionately describes how these three dots can show the tension between what is revealed and what is omitted, what is spoken and what breaks off into silence, what points without explaining. The works by these 4 artists engage this tension through various modes of material exploration in response to intuitive and spontaneous image generation, emotional reverberations, or sensory experiences of the physical world.
installation photos courtesy Alex Skorija.

L to R: Leah Tacha, Erin Dodson, Alex Skorija, Leah Tacha, Alex Skorija

Erin Dodson, "Compost", oil on wood panel, 2024

Erin Dodson, "Here Are Some Things That Are Hidden", oil on canvas, 2024

L to R: Alex Skorija, Leah Tacha, Alex Skorija, Erin Dodson, Katherine Toler

L to R: Katherine Toler, Alex Skorija, Erin Dodson

Erin Dodson, "Garden Interior I", watercolor and pastel on paper, 2024

Erin Dodson, "Garden Interior II", ink on paper, 2024

L to R: found object by Erin Dodson, small painting by Alex Skorija, ink drawing by Erin Dodson, ceramic sculpture by Leach Tacha

Erin Dodson, "She Went Back to Eating Earth I", oil and colored pencil on paper, 2024

L to R: Alex Skorija, Erin Dodson, Leah Tacha, Erin Dodson, Katherine Toler, Alex Skorija, Leah Tacha