Untitled / assembled piecework (detail)  by Kathryn Hempel, 2025

Unsettled Territories :: Artists Talk

Community Critique: MEET THE ARTISTS

Saturday, 7/25/26 from 2-3pm  

Join the artists, Kathryn Hempel, Jeannie Hua, & Michael Anthony Garcia at the gallery for a a guided presentation about their works including group dialogue about the act—& art forms—of collage, content-mixing, mash-ups, hybridity and intersectionality. Other artists are welcome to bring your own artworks and examples for group critique too.

Artist Critique Participants? If you’d like to present work contact:
Jeannie Hua @ huajeannie@gmail.com

Sonder / collaged magazine and acrylic on paper by Jeannie Hua, 2025

The exhibition Unsettled Territories features the work of:

Kathryn Hempel, Michael Anthony Garcia & Jeannie Hua

Unsettled Territories confront the strata of displacement, memory and embodiment by using a vocabulary of visual strategies that disrupt stability, unsettle dominant narratives, and create new spaces for collective witnessing. Across photography, mixed media, and sculptural intervention, the artists reveal the unseen infrastructures—emotional and physical, political and personal—that govern how we inhabit the world. Their works do not merely depict fragmented realities; they inhabit them, making visible the ruptures and possibilities that form contemporary lived experience. 

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Kathryn Hempel’s palette and forms act as frameworks through which we consider the infrastructures of power. The images suggest maintenance and repair, yet also deterioration 

Jeannie Hua’s images question the possibility of comprehension and understanding despite personal and public impairment of access to information and knowledge. 

Michael Anthony Garcia’s sculptural photographs integrate textiles, organic forms, ritualistic elements, and altered environments. The result is a visceral dialogue with presence, vulnerability, and the politics of the body as territory. 
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Unsettled Territories positions the practices of these three artists within a dialogue about space—constructed and innate. Through their visual languages, the exhibition invites viewers into a query of how we are shaped by—and push against— the frameworks that define our lives. 

Exhibit Curated / Organized by Jeannie Hua
with assistance by Agitator members Alex Wilson & Jason Greenberg

First the bard…. / paint on fabric / by Michael Anthony Garcia, 2025