April 19, 2026

“Hey Kiddo” at Red Brick Aspen

Hey Kiddo opened at Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen on August 14th and ran through October 17th — five women artists in the main gallery whose work, collectively, kept circling the same territory: what we carry forward, what we choose to remember, what the imagination does with a world that keeps shrinking. I was in good company. Lindsey Yeager's paintings feel like transmissions from civilizations we either lost or haven't built yet. Jasmine McGlade's photographs ask you to actually look at right now. Molly Altman makes clay hold what won't stay. Rachel Bock photographs frozen air bubbles underwater that speak in Morse code.

The Red Brick described my contribution as using AI to conjure fictional landscapes shaped by others' idealized worlds — which is one way to say it. What I was doing was closer to asking: what does longing look like when it's been filtered through a screen, absorbed into the body, and then translated back into paint? The exhibition's curatorial frame kept returning to imagination as survival strategy, referencing MacKinnon's idea of shifting baselines — how diminished states become the new normal, and how the act of picturing a wilder world is itself a form of resistance. I think about that a lot. Thank you to the Red Brick and to Aspen Public Radio for their support of the show.

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