HELD TOGETHER: FRAGILITY & ENDURANCE IN ART
Curated by Sergio Gomez
Brought to you by Visionary Art Collective
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Held Together is a global virtual exhibition exploring the complex relationship between fragility and strength. Through a range of contemporary works, the exhibition reflects on how vulnerability, instability, and uncertainty shape our shared human experience.
Featuring artists from around the world, Held Together invites reflection on personal, societal, and environmental forms of fragility—and the quiet resilience that often emerges in their midst. Whether intimate, raw, or quietly powerful, each piece speaks to what it means to endure, adapt, and hold on.
Cover artwork by Jenn Shifflet
Ana Silvia Arias
Resilience After Wounds, acrylic on canvas, 30x30in
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Emerging (front), music card, tea bag, fabric, screen print, stitching, 5x7in
Kimberlea Bass
Colony Collapse, Bees 1, encaustic and mixed media on wood, 20x20in
Carrie Baxter
Tomboy,
Emily Clarke McKinney
Emily Fussner
Held Together, pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks, dimensions variable, this configuration approx. 23x20x15in
Sarpakar, mixed media, 24x36in
Rashmi Ghosh
Anne-Sophie Goblet
Memory Of A Family Dance, acrylic, watercolor, embroidery floss on Arches paper, 22x30in
Emma Graham
Susan Grace
She Didn’t Know That Nature Could Be Placed Upon Her Chest, oil on panel, 12x16in
Laura Haberer
Megan Hatch
Phil Irish
Reba Kittredge Tyson
Kyla, Crown Heights, oil on canvas, 20x24in
Lauren Lesley
Bunched Up, graphite and black colored pencil drawing on paper, 18x24in
Isabel Lu
Enzina Marrari
Carole Mathys
Abigail Munoz
Untitled 11 [Side], mixed media: fuseworks white glass, tan glaze, red clay, 13/4x0.5x11/4in
Chronicles of Visions II, acrylic, sharpie, yarn, brush markers, oil-based markers on duck fabric and rock, 6x10ft
Katya Neptune
Rhea
Cliff Powell
Lisa Pressman
Between Realms, mixed media: digital art and collage; archival pigment print on premium fine art paper, professionally mounted and framed, 21.88x27.88x1.25in
Elise Racine
Aidamaris Roman Tejera
Hidden in the Shadows, oil on canvas, 22x30in bravoromanart
Nicholas Ruscetta
It Was Never Meant To Be Like This, oil paint, wax, paper cloth, canvas, frames, and hanging wire, 133/4 x113/4in nicholasruscetta
Marilee Salvator
Abundance, Performance Still With Dancer Meghen McKinley laser engravings (hand printed in intaglio and relief), homemade walnut stains, wax on Thai kozo papers, various found natural materials: branches, seed pods (sweet gum, yucca, trumpet vine), recycled latex paint, wax, string, magic (Dancer is wearing outfit made from handprinted kozo), 10x20x10ft marilee_salvator
Carla Taylor
The Tears That Taught Me, paper, ink, glass, and thread, 12x14in
Mary Ann Tunnell
The School, acrylic and colored pencil on wood, 20x20in
Vanessa Wenwieser
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