OPEN OCTOBER 24, 2025
Exhibition Statement
In Embodiment, metal forms respond to drawn landscapes teeming with polymorphous figures. Their interaction symbolizes our embodiment of past and present life, as well as our innate connection to earth’s materials. Wherever we are, we are immersed in the presence of the past, the earth, and each other. These drawings and sculptures embody the life that exists in objects, materials, and place.
Steele and Radochonski collaborate to create a conversation between two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional forms. They ask us to consider how material and objects connect with all living things and coexist through time.
Louise Radochonski
My work explores movement and what lies buried in the subconscious. As I work, I consider how my thoughts inform my gestures. I invite my hands to ride waves of breath, while I am immersed in memories and musings. Subconscious thoughts, feelings and imaginings inform what I draw. Mark making, pigments and paper embody what is conscious and unconscious. Louise holds dual degrees - an MFA in sculpture and a BSN in nursing. She has taught figurative sculpture/drawing and creativity workshops at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Tyler School of Art. Past exhibitions include: Arizona State University Museum, Ohio Craft Museum, Society for Contemporary Craft, Ohio Craft Museum, Houston Museum of Art. Garth Clark Gallery, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Louisburg College, Signature Gallery, Blue Spiral 1. Residencies include: Penland School Crafts, and Vermont Studio Center. Louise is passionate about making art and exploring the intersection of art and health. As a nurse, Louise has worked in trauma medicine, hospice and memory care. She explores how direct observation, creativity and self expression can create well being. While maintaining her Durham studio, she also works with medically fragile youth in the Raleigh - Durham area.
Andi Steele
Andi Steele’s interactive sculptures and installations focus on social and spatial relationships. The work explores the intersection of personal and shared space. Steele uses a variety of materials from recycled fiber to forged steel, choosing the material that best fits the idea and interaction. She believes that materials carry visceral associations that affect the visual and conceptual understanding of a sculpture. Steele received a BFA from the University of South Carolina (1994), was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft specializing in blacksmithing (1998-99) and earned her MFA in sculpture at the University of Georgia (2004). She lives in Wilmington, NC, where she is a Professor of Sculpture and Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Steele has exhibited her work for over 25 years, most recently in Women House Amsterdam, NDSMFuse (NL) and Sovereign, McColl Center (NC). Images and information about her sculptures and installations can be found on her website: andisteele.com and on Instagram @andi.steele
Exhibition Statement
In Embodiment, metal forms respond to drawn landscapes teeming with polymorphous figures. Their interaction symbolizes our embodiment of past and present life, as well as our innate connection to earth’s materials. Wherever we are, we are immersed in the presence of the past, the earth, and each other. These drawings and sculptures embody the life that exists in objects, materials, and place.
Steele and Radochonski collaborate to create a conversation between two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional forms. They ask us to consider how material and objects connect with all living things and coexist through time.
Louise Radochonski
My work explores movement and what lies buried in the subconscious. As I work, I consider how my thoughts inform my gestures. I invite my hands to ride waves of breath, while I am immersed in memories and musings. Subconscious thoughts, feelings and imaginings inform what I draw. Mark making, pigments and paper embody what is conscious and unconscious. Louise holds dual degrees - an MFA in sculpture and a BSN in nursing. She has taught figurative sculpture/drawing and creativity workshops at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Tyler School of Art. Past exhibitions include: Arizona State University Museum, Ohio Craft Museum, Society for Contemporary Craft, Ohio Craft Museum, Houston Museum of Art. Garth Clark Gallery, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Louisburg College, Signature Gallery, Blue Spiral 1. Residencies include: Penland School Crafts, and Vermont Studio Center. Louise is passionate about making art and exploring the intersection of art and health. As a nurse, Louise has worked in trauma medicine, hospice and memory care. She explores how direct observation, creativity and self expression can create well being. While maintaining her Durham studio, she also works with medically fragile youth in the Raleigh - Durham area.
Andi Steele
Andi Steele’s interactive sculptures and installations focus on social and spatial relationships. The work explores the intersection of personal and shared space. Steele uses a variety of materials from recycled fiber to forged steel, choosing the material that best fits the idea and interaction. She believes that materials carry visceral associations that affect the visual and conceptual understanding of a sculpture. Steele received a BFA from the University of South Carolina (1994), was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft specializing in blacksmithing (1998-99) and earned her MFA in sculpture at the University of Georgia (2004). She lives in Wilmington, NC, where she is a Professor of Sculpture and Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Steele has exhibited her work for over 25 years, most recently in Women House Amsterdam, NDSMFuse (NL) and Sovereign, McColl Center (NC). Images and information about her sculptures and installations can be found on her website: andisteele.com and on Instagram @andi.steele
Photos by James Farley