Josh Chefitz, What Survives
Sullivan Family Gallery, August 14–October 3
Opening Reception: Friday, August 14, 5–8 pm

What Survives is a body of work born from a cycle of safety and survival. Josh Chefitz begins each piece cautiously, finding comfort in familiar shapes and lines, before pushing into uncertainty and creating problems that demand to be solved. Some pieces get rescued from the brink; others are cut apart, their remnants waiting to find new life in future works. What survives this process carries the marks of that struggle. Made with handmade paper from the Morgan Conservatory and mixed media, Chefitz’s layered works draw on the grid doodles of his childhood, exploring how memory is itself an act of survival, cutting away what we can’t use and saving what we can.