"When it suns, it pours" is an exploration of perceptual downshifts that scale the environmental to the elemental, an exercise akin to looking for a star with a microscope. The exhibition of drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and sound installation by Abby Flanagan and Kerry Maguire features artworks that are fragments of day-to-day attempts to reckon with oblivion.

Through an accumulation of small gestures, each artist logs daily encounters with their environment that unveil facets of their surroundings which would otherwise go unnoticed. Both artists turn to material traces and glitching as a means of calling attention to the realm of the infinitesimal and the unapparent: a singular shell in the ocean, a particle of dust in the atmosphere, a drop in a rainstorm, a blip on the radar.

Flanagan and Maguire’s investigations seek fault cracks in the avalanche of information, models, and data that attempt yet fail to articulate the pervasive narrative of environmental threats in contemporary life. By sounding the depths of intimate, tactile experience and material knowledge, the artists work in collaboration with weather, minerals, water, infrastructure, and each other to ask: how does the ostrich learn to lift its head from the sand?

Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until July 9.