lauren daccache
elizabeth orr
eleanor white

The exhibitions explore the relationship of humans and the environments they inhabit, with close attention to the degradation of consumerism, resource extraction and geopolitical conflict. With urgency and empathy, the exhibitions inspire greater ecological awareness and action.

Lauren Daccache’s installation features work from her ongoing project “coming back is not just returning to a place,” which explores familial patterns and domestic spaces within the backdrop of social and economic instability in Lebanon. Through a layered approach—combining her own photographs, family archives, historical ephemera, and found imagery—she constructs photographic composites, visual indexes, and site-specific installations. By shifting the context in which images are seen, the work questions how memory and perception shape our understanding of places and events.

Elizabeth Orr’s work references architecture, blinds, fences, and ready-mades, constructed from modular sheet metal, glass, construction and found materials. Orr’s exhibition places architectural interventions throughout the gallery, affixing a window to a wall, begging viewers to ponder what’s behind the liminal surfaces. Joined by a new body of work utilizing Swiffer cleaning mops and neon lights, the exhibition explores themes of speculative technologies, climate change, queerness, and the body in relationship to digital space. Closely attune to the environmental implications of creating new work, the panes slide together and can be flat-packed, offsetting their carbon footprint, amount of material used, and shipping resources.

Eleanor White’s work incorporates organic, textured, granulated, fibrous, powdery, glassy, chunky, and sharp materials. She works with crushed stones, dirt, charcoal, sulfur, bonded copper, iron pyrite, wood ash, dog hair, shed snake skins, feathers, sand, and porcupine quills. For her presentation, she will show a series of works on paper exploring the element lithium, its historical industrial uses, and its contemporary significance in lithium batteries. These works address its role in everyday products and the broader implications of resource extraction and exploitative land use. The materials in her works on paper reference the historical use of minerals in paint making, the role of stones as new-age panaceas, and the associative power of matter.

About the Artists

Lauren Daccache (b. Dallas, TX) is a Lebanese-American visual artist raised in the United States and Beirut, Lebanon. She primarily focuses on long-term, image-based projects that explore the impact of time and age on people and places and the tension it creates between personal and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and featured in publications such as Vice Magazine, National Geographic, and Der Greif.

Elizabeth Orr lives and works in New York and Livingston Manor. Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include VIN VIN, Vienna (2023, 2021); 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022); Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York (2016); and Bodega (Derosia), New York (2017, 2015). Group presentations, screenings, and lectures include Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, Denmark (forthcoming, 2023); Sharp Projects, Copenhagen (2022, 2021); Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2019); CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France (2018); The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Artists Space, New York (2015); Anthology Film Archives, New York (2018, 2016); and The Swiss Institute, New York (2016). In 2018, she received a Public Affairs Grant Program from the US Embassy, and in 2016, she won the MAAF NYC award for her video MT RUSH (2016). She has taken part in various residency programs, including EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), Shandaken (New York), Bemis Center (Omaha, Nebraska), Real-Time & Space (Oakland, CA), and Recess (NY, NY).Orr manages the estate of her late father, artist Eric Orr (1939-1998), and is on the board of KAJE, Brooklyn, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated with Honors from the Bard MFA program in 2015.

 Eleanor White is based in the Hudson Valley, NY. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Mountain High, Valley Low: LabSpace, NY;Artists Draw Their Studios, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, NY; Another World, charity postcard sale, Frieze London; Cross-Pollination, Boscobel House Gallery NY; Tick, Tock, Time in Contemporary Art, Lehman College; Case Studies, Gallery Aferro, NJ; Materiality, Westchester Community College, NY; and numerous exhibitions at Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Her work is included in The Montefiore Fine Art Program, The Deutsche Bank Art Collection, and many private collections. Eleanor received her MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, on a full Jacob K. Javits Foundation scholarship. She earned her BFA. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She has participated in several artist residencies, including the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, Virginia.