Sarah Trundle, "Motion To Adjourn"

Weathering: The Endurance of the Ordinary
May 1–30, 2026
at Phaeton Gallery

Weathering: The Endurance of the Ordinary brings together the work of nine women artists whose practices reflect on the quiet transformations that occur through time, environment, and daily life. Through painting, mark-making, and material exploration, Jennifer Esser, Mary Lamb, Suzanne Keith Loechl, Somé Louis, Peg Shaw, Krista Townsend, Lindsey Luna Tucker, Sarah Trundle, and Laura Wooten consider the ways ordinary objects, landscapes, and gestures carry the marks of living.

The exhibition centers on the idea of weathering—not simply as physical erosion, but as a broader process of endurance and change. Surfaces fade, fray, rust, and tear; materials soften or harden through use and exposure. These visible alterations mirror the emotional textures of life: memory accumulated over time, the quiet labor of daily routines, and the connective threads that bind people to place and to one another.

Across the works in this exhibition, the physical and emotional intertwine with a deeper sense of spiritual openness. Weathering becomes a form of acceptance—an acknowledgment that beauty often emerges through vulnerability, patience, and the passage of time. The artists engage with gestures that are both deliberate and intuitive, revealing subtle tensions between fragility and resilience.

Rather than monumental declarations, Weathering honors the strength found in the ordinary: a worn surface, a repeated mark, the changing light across a familiar scene. In these works, the everyday becomes a record of presence—evidence of lives lived attentively within the rhythms of the natural world.

Suzanne Keith Loechl, “I’ll Call Your Mom”