Come Together

Gilman Contemporary presents COME TOGETHER, a group show featuring works by Dana Hart-Stone, Ellie Davies, Jim Westphalen, and Paulette Tavormina. Through photography and digital art, each artist in this exhibition uses distinct subjects and styles to present a unique vision that urges us not only to look, but to truly see with new eyes, embracing complexity and nuance in what we thought we already understood. Paulette Tavormina’s still life photography evokes the rich detail of seventeenth-century Old Master painters, offering deeply personal interpretations of timeless themes. Ellie Davies’ images delve into the fabricated nature of landscape, creating temporary interventions in forests that blur the line between reality and fantasy. Dana Hart-Stone, inspired by childhood explorations of abandoned homesteads in eastern Montana, integrates vintage photographs into his “digital paintings,” preserving lost histories of the American experience. Jim Westphalen uses the camera to document the enduring beauty of decaying barns, schoolhouses, and rural landmarks, preserving the spirit of rural America as it fades into history.  In this collective exploration, the act of seeing becomes a dynamic process of discovery, compelling us to question our assumptions and confront the biases that shape how we perceive the world.