Resonance : Make Space To Resonate 7/17/26 - 8/22/26
Resonance : Make Space To Resonate explores visual and sonic arts across the resonance of connection within our community.
We are resonance materialized. Frequency is information. Selected artists share explorations of resonance, Phase III of Gather Center's annual Consciousness Spiral. Awarded Resonance Artists exhibit with both artists In residence Eye for Ear and Sarah Yeung.
Creating Gather Center’s first uniquely projection mapped experience, Eye for Ear presents two immersive works: Origin and Sonos giving shape to the unseen, and learning from what echoes back.
Live, transformative sonic experience will be offered by Reiki master teacher and therapeutic sound specialist Sarah Yeung. She is known for her expertise in Tibetan singing bowls and recently returned to the U.S. after months of immersion internationally.
Awarded Resonance Artists:
Alix Aidekman, Gravity, Queen of Love and Hope, Carol Daggs, cybèle, Daniel Johnson, Deanna Lee, Eye for Ear (Brian McGaw & Kirill Shevyakov), Janet Morgan, John McCormick, Kate Quarfordt, Laura Sordillo, Mark Stafford, Monika Weiss, Naomi Gilbert, Sarah Yeung, Sasha Yosselani, Seema Lisa Pandya, Susan Ziegler
Meditations on theme:
Resonance is the baseline, connecting us to all that we experience and through awareness. Where we become aware of our energy, we can practice resonance as choice. It is a state not a status.
Awakening is arriving at a new frequency, experiencing moments of it. Resonance is maintaining that updated frequency with purpose.
Resonance is relevant in art, kinetics, physics, light and energy, music, and meanings suggesting the fabric of our universe.
"Resonance is the physical phenomenon where a vibrating system or external force drives another object to oscillate at greater amplitudes, occurring when the driving frequency matches the object's natural frequency. It applies across multiple disciplines: physics, chemistry, music, and everyday metaphor"
Vibration
Tone
Frequency
Transmission
Feeling
Signal
Harmonics
Expression
Broadcast
Reach of a frequency
The invisible current in relationships
Ripples
Waves
The reach of our impact
The evoked Quality of a stimulus
Music of the spheres
Attunement
Kate Quarfordt
New York-based artist. In the artist's words:
“My work explores reflected sunlight and other transmissions of nature's spiritual intelligence channelled in unlikely, sometimes subversive ways through the built environment of the city. Walking and observing the cyclical movements of light on buildings is a devotional practice for me, a way to unhook from the frenetic pace of city life and reconnect to a more resonant, embodied experience of time.”
Website: katequarfordt.com
Daniel Johnson
New York-based artist. In the artist's words:
“Consisting of mixed media pigment prints and acrylic works on canvas, paper, vinyl and silk, my art takes the viewer on a colorful kaleidoscopic journey into vibrant visions of chaotic beginnings, and sophisticated, geometric designs. These abstract works are inspired by my extensive travels to Turkey, Egypt, Spain and Morocco and by my understanding of their poetic, religious and philosophic traditions.”
Mark Stafford
New York-based artist. In the artist's words:
“I believe in the continuum of consciousness through its connection to the cosmos. I use a variety of techniques from found objects and casting to drawing and traditional painting to communicate these worldviews.”
Website: markstafford.art
Naomi Gilbert
New York-based artist. In the artist's words:
“Nature inspires me, but it is the underlying energies, vibrations, and frequencies of the cosmos that I seek to represent rather than the distinct forms of the material world. It is this universal resonance, the interplay of vibration, frequency, and form, that inspires my practice.”
Janet Morgan
Brooklyn-based artist. In the artist's words:
“My art practice has always been a kinesthetic one, grounded in the body and its senses and invisible energies, whether painting humans, deities or portraits of the earth. Coming from dance, movement, ecstatic poetry and music, my work flows onto the paper, often with both hands, using all the body's knowledge to reveal the underlying sources of energy.”
Website: janetmorgan-art.net
Deanna Lee
Brooklyn-based artist. In the artist's words:
“All of my work arises from wondering: What is your body telling you about life? In my paintings, drawings, site-specific installations, and public artworks, the rhythms of my hand-drawn lines evoke a range of influences: flora and fauna; water waves and wind currents; geological strata; topographical maps; and sound.”
Website: deannaclee.net
Laura Sordillo
New York-based artist. In the artist's words:
“I interpret resonance as the evolution of life and light. The supercontinuum is a powerful example of the beauty, but also the mystery, of light's unique properties.”
Website: laurasordillo.com
Alix Aidekman
New York-based artist. In the artist's words:
“Within my Dottie series, I fill in the negative space between small and imperfect circles with an ink pen, often working for long periods on a single piece of paper in a meditative state. What begins as self-soothing marks made in solitude become visual maps of healing.”
Website: alixmakesart.com
Susan Ziegler
Brooklyn-based artist. In the artist's words:
“My work is an ongoing meditation on nature within the urban environment through a process-based practice of painting, collage, and printmaking. I'm responding to the sensory impact of phenomena such as light, air, and sound to visualize the unseen energies that surround us.”
Website: susanziegler.com
cybèle
Brooklyn-based artist. In the artist's words:
“My relationship to this work is rooted in sustained observation. I want the paintings to retain a sense of physicality and flow, still images that hum with breath, presence, and time.”
Website: drawingkind.com
Seema Lisa Pandya
Brooklyn-based artist. In the artist's words:
“While learning to play the percussive tabla drums, my teacher shared that all matter vibrates, meaning a hidden rhythm is literally everywhere and is everything. My Tabla Sculpture Series seeks to visualize this unseen rhythm.”
Website: seemalisapandya.com
Monika Weiss
Monika Weiss is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and composer. Her recent projects include the sound sculpture Metamorphosis-Przemiana, which joined the permanent collection of the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko in 2024; a sister version of this installation was presented at Laumeier Sculpture Park (2024-2025). Since 2023, documentation of Weiss's work and related correspondence has been held at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The artist's career is documented in a 2021 monograph featuring essays by British art historian Griselda Pollock and The Met curator Mark McDonald. Weiss' work has been showcased at leading institutions worldwide, including the Whitney Museum, Frost Art Museum, North Dakota Museum of Art, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Frauenmuseum, Kunsthaus Dresden, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Streaming Museum, and WhiteBox. In 2022, the label Infrequent Seams released her album, Monika Weiss - Metamorphosis/Nirbhaya.
Website: monika-weiss.com
Sasha Yosselani
Brooklyn-based artist. In the artist's words:
“My art explores the mystical subliminal space, reclaiming sensuality, intuition, and beauty as a source of power and a connection to the divine. The paintings I've been creating with soft pastel are arising from a subconscious place, that which resonates from a collective consciousness, messages of nature, spirit world, and a new yet ancient frequency that is being transmitted.”
Eye for Ear (Brian McGaw and Kirill Shevyakov)
Brooklyn-based artist-in-residence collective. In the artist's words:
“We tell stories with light, to reframe environments and inspire an audience. (From the studio's own site; ask Brian and Kirill for their preferred Eye for Ear statement.)”
Website: occurrentarts.com
John McCormick
Musician. In the artist's words:
“I am an acoustic guitarist who composes and plays music in resonant settings such as structured sound meditations or with world music ensembles.”
Carol R. Daggs (Jazzage)
Musician, author, and visual artist. In the artist's words:
“Jazzage: the artful application of musical Jazz sounds to the auditory apparatus and soul via vocal and instrumental flow! In 2020, I successfully published Saratoga Soul Brandtville Blues.”
Gravity, Queen of Love and Hope
Vocalist and meditation artist. In the artist's words:
“There are 25 layers of vocals layered within this piece. I wanted to create a full spectrum of harmony and sound with just my voice, to take the listener on a journey to block out the material world and find some inner peace.”
Sarah Yeung
Artist in residence, sound bath experience at the opening reception.
Yeung’s interdisciplinary work bridges art and wellbeing, East and West, ancient and modern traditions. She weaves sound, movement, energy practices, and contemplative arts into transformative experiences for individuals and communities. Yeung is founder of SKY Sound Yoga, certified as a sound healing practitioner, Reiki master teacher, registered yoga teacher (e-RYT 500), and holistic wellness coach. She holds Bachelor’s of Science and Master’s of Science from Cornell University.