What Dreams May Come brings together works by Sabine Carlson, Irene Christensen, Stephanie Lempres, and Sarah Riley, tracing how dream logic, memory, and imagination shape contemporary visual language. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the exhibition considers the porous boundary between the conscious and unconscious, where symbolic imagery becomes a tool for meaning-making rather than narrative resolution.
Across the exhibition, recurring figures and environments operate as transitional spaces where vulnerability, transformation, and introspection unfold. Carlson’s paintings stage encounters between humans and water birds, emphasizing interdependence and fragile acts of care. Christensen’s works hover between landscape and body, revealing intimate ecosystems marked by growth, erosion, and quiet instability. Lempres introduces a contrasting register of restraint through geometric color-field compositions that function as temporal pauses, inviting contemplation and interior projection. Riley’s mixed-media works and sculptures draw on myth and personal history, reworking memory through processes of fragmentation and reconstruction.
Together, the artists position dreaming as a method that questions how experience, emotion, and imagination are shaped over time.
Exhibition Information
Location: Viridian Artists, Chelsea
Website: https://viridianartists.com
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6 PM (and by appointment)
Exhibition Dates: January 6 – January 24, 2026
