No Place

"As if you could kill time
without injuring eternity."
- Henry David Thoreau

Serrated Latency is a group exhibition bridging sculpture, painting, and moving image into the digital landscape in an effort to trace perceptual edges that are rarely immediate; they emerge across time, space, and experience with variable lag and resolution. The curated works draw from gaming culture, mythmaking, and speculative worlds to reflect on how asymmetric power structures operate with delayed consequence and deferred harm. As digital environments mirror histories of colonial expansion and extraction, fantasy becomes infrastructure and identity becomes terrain. To arrive at No Place is to confront a landscape where progress promises transcendence while simultaneously eroding the boundaries between self, system, and control.

Just as medieval armor and swords carried aesthetic, symbolic, and functional significance, the tools and avatars of digital spaces carry layered consequence for those who inhabit them. Users navigate infinite world maps while performing labor, desire, excavation and experimentation in ways that mimic conquest, colonization, and survival. The promise of mastery or transcendence is illusory; success is a fleeting token and the final destination remains out of reach… leaving us nowhere and often waking in a room alone… a space… distant from reality.

How are we transformed as we maneuver spaces that are both permanent and intangible? Are we players, pawns, or instruments of the system itself? What futures are being built in digital worlds where access is uneven, labor is extracted, and surveillance is normalized? How do imagination, myth-making, and personal narrative operate within structures designed for monetization?

By tracing the faultlines of where human agency and systemic design have impacted and accumulated through yet another age of technological expansion, the audience is invited to reflect on what is at stake as the imagined world opts to trade intimacy for immediacy; what is the exchange rate for time spent inside artificial landscapes, where exactly did these mountains come from and what makes them worth climbing? Serrated Latency works to confront the temporal, incremental, often unseen forces that shape our experiences in both terrestrial and digital realms while offering some foothold in our shared leap into the virtual unknown.

Augustina Wang (b. 1999, New York, NY) lives and works in Queens, NY. Augustina Wang received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2022. Her practice centers on mythmaking and world-building, drawing from personal narrative and inherited histories. As the daughter of a first-generation immigrant single mother, Wang reconstructs lineage through fragmented language and fabled family stories passed from grandmother to mother to daughter. Her work is also shaped by engagement with her inner child, developed within digital spaces such as online forums and roleplay communities. These environments provided alternate identities and forms of agency unavailable in the physical world. Wang explores roleplay as both cultural practice and survival strategy, extending from video games and anime to everyday acts of masking as a Chinese American femme.

Brian Uhl received his BFA in Illustration from Columbus College of Art and Design. After college, Brian was involved in Cincinnati’s DIY creative scene, where from 2010 to 2012 he served as the monthly event calendar organizer for DIY venues around the city. After time spent in Oakland, Portland, Detroit and Chicago; Uhl returned to Cincinnati where he remains active in uplifting environmental and human rights efforts through volunteering his technical skillset. He describes his practice as both compulsive and cathartic, inspired by Old Master ethos, spiritual imagery, stage-set design, folk art, and video games. Brian Uhl has shown at Gallery Nucleus (CA), Antler & Tanlon Galleries (Portland, OR), Light Grey Art Lab (Minneapolis, MN), Mepaintsme and at Spring Break Art Fair LA. His 2022 publication, "The Body Condition” was actualized through the Make Learn Build grant from RACC and can be seen in Printed Matter’s collection.

Eric Coolidge (b. 1988, Cleveland, Ohio) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. A sculptor by training, Eric Coolidge’s practice centers on bold, confrontational works that probe intersections of absurdity, religion, and the American political landscape. Drawing inspiration from science fiction and the occult, his sculptures function as charged symbols, part monument and part provocation. Working primarily in metal, Coolidge introduces unexpected materials such as glitter to create deliberate tensions that speak to duality, spectacle, and belief. His works assert a physical presence that mirrors their conceptual intensity, inviting viewers into spaces of discomfort, humor, and reflection.

Maria Joranko (b. Pierre, SD) is a Guatemalan/American multimedia artist and vocalist based in London, UK. Her work is informed by her experiences as a racialized, chronically ill, queer high femme living through capitalist and imperialist climate change and technodoom. Deeply influenced by speculative worlds, storytelling, and the gothic: her oeuvre is characterized by a strong connection to the chthonic and political. Her memories and bodymind, with its endless potentials and failures, serve as a conduit, avatar, and muse. She combines and remixes natural and digital materials to engineer and imagine radical bodily connections between cyber and organic networks as sites for liberatory seeds.

Cameron A. Granger (b. 1993, Euclid, Ohio) is Sandra’s son and grew up in Euclid, Ohio. He likes pigeons, video games, and memes. Recently, his thinking has focused on how myth-making and narrative are used as tools to police the imagination. He is a lifetime member of MINT Collective (long may it live) and an alumnus of Euclid Public Schools. Granger is an alumnus of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist-in-Residence program (2021–22) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017). His film Before I Let Go received both Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival. He lives and works between Columbus, Ohio and Queens, New York.

Joshua Culberson (b. 1989, Columbus, Ohio) earned his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in 2012. Culberson’s paintings render visions of a far removed future; field notes from the other edge of Singularity where non-virtual reality dissolved long ago and humanity exists more as memory than active participant. The works are inspired by Culberson’s immediate experience of life in the Anthropocene; from physical and spiritual circumstance to relationships, intentions, hope… the artist's personal narrative is distorted and distilled like dreams trying to discern their own origin from within the ether. Culberson’s invented mythologies extract observations of the subconscious by offering it an avatar in surreal visual dialogue with potential futures removed from the judgment of dystopia. Recent exhibitions include Harper’s Gallery (Group show, 2024) and Stellar Highway Gallery (Solo show, 2023). Culberson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Kara Güt is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with image-based digital media. Her practice investigates the formation of human intimacy through internet culture, constructed detachment from reality, and shifting power dynamics within virtual space. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Singapore Art Museum, and Hybrid Box, Dresden. Güt received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is an alumna of the Pioneer Works Tech Residency and the Institute of Electronic Arts at Alfred University. She is a 2023 Knight Art + Tech Fellow.