Jonathan Ryan Storm

October 11 – November 6, 2025

Jonathan Ryan Storm reimagines the rug as more than an object—it becomes a sensory experience: tactile, optical and spatial. His tufted works are not mere surfaces but immersive environments pulsing with rhythm and vibration that invite participation.

Guided by intuition, Storm embraces rhythm and repetition through the meditative act of tufting, creating compositions that feel unearthed rather than constructed. Though colorblind, he works with a striking sensitivity to hue and contrast, privileging bodily perception over intellectual design.

On the autism spectrum, Storm channels his deep connection to rhythm, repetition and automatic movement as a source of generative power. What soothes and compels him in the making becomes transmittable—offered to viewers through optical rhythm, tactile texture and a vibrating sense of presence. Primateria emerges not as an exhibition of static works but as a living environment, an invitation to feel, follow and lose oneself in the oscillating flow.

Jonathan Ryan Storm (b. 1980, Arizona) lives in Western Massachusetts and works in Southern Vermont.

Cesar Melgar

November 13 – December 11, 2025

Cesar Melgar was born in Newark, NJ and raised in the Ironbound—a working class, post-industrial neighborhood. A child of first-generation immigrants from Colombia and Peru, he spent his youth exploring and playing in beautiful decaying, forgotten structures of a disinvested city. The leveling of his neighborhood and displacement of his neighbors for the construction of a sports arena was the writing on the wall that the city was going to undergo historic change due to renewed business interests. He has been documenting the physical changes of the urban landscape and its inhabitants since.