As an artist-run space we humbly request your financial support.
Even just a few dollars will go a long way in helping Peep Space to continue to offer a platform for contemporary art and artists. To support, please buy us a coffee here:
Buy Peep Space a Coffee

---

Next up:

A Multi-Scalar Habitat

A Group Exhibition Curated / Orchestrated by Austin Thomas
February 28th – April 4th, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28th, 6-8 pm
Draw All Day: April 4th, 12-4p

A Multi-Scalar Habitat gathers twelve artists whose practices build worlds tactile, imagined, and hand-made. Together, their works assemble an unexpected community of objects: drawings that open portals, ceramics that behave like organic architecture, textiles that function as intricately woven tapestries, and paintings that stretch gesture into luminous landscape. Installed in close relation, these works form a layered environment that shifts in scale.

The exhibition is rooted in the ethos of Pocket Utopia, my long-evolving, artist-run curatorial project that began as a Brooklyn salon for experimentation, conversation, and communal making. Peep Space shares this lineage of artist-driven activation. Here, the gallery becomes a shared habitat, one that grows through proximity, play, and the pleasure of looking closely.

Alyssa Fanning contributes delicate colored-pencil and pastel portals of small, precise worlds. Kristin Cronic counters with a large “mother” tree painting that offers atmospheric space, anchoring the exhibition. Dahlia Elsayed’s glazed micro-architectures, part Egyptian, part futuristic, serve as imagined dwellings. Jeff Feld adds improvised sculptural objects assembled from found materials, structures that echo resilience, contingency, and the handmade city.

Danielle Dimston’s biomorphic forms sit somewhere between blueprint and dream, painted lines, mazes, plans, and dwellings unfolding in real time. Traci Johnson’s hooked-rug textile works bring color, tactility, and healing into the space; their surfaces operate as soft terrains. Scott Teplin’s exuberant handmade fake fireworks offer a burst of idiosyncrasy and mischievous energy. Sharon Louden’s paintings stretch gesture into light-filled, rhythmic fields, while Julie Torres’s thick, painted abstractions assert material presence and community-driven energy.

seven seven ceramics contributes hive-like vessels whose asymmetries echo natural growth and collective shelter. Ellen Letcher collages torn fragments of popular imagery into dynamic, layered surfaces that hover between ruin and renewal. And Clintel Steed’s painted faces on playing cards bring intimate immediacy to the characters dealt into the exhibition’s world, each portrait a compact narrative.

Across materials and scales, these works behave like habitats: sites of possibility, refuge, improvisation, and care. The exhibition doubles as a happening, with programming that extends its ethos beyond the walls. On April 4th, the gallery hosts Draw All Day, an intergenerational gathering led by expert drawers Alyssa Fanning and Clintel Steed, honoring PeepSpace’s commitment to artist-centered community practice.

A Multi-Scalar Habitat proposes that worlds can be built through small acts: a mark, a cut edge, a looped thread, a glazed surface, a found object, a face on a card. Together, these works create a shared environment in which art, scale, and community fold into each other, and where visitors are invited to inhabit the space with curiosity, generosity, and attention.

—Austin Thomas

Works by Kristin Cronic, Danielle Dimston, Dahlia Elsayed, Alyssa Fanning, Jeff Feld, Traci Johnson, Ellen Letcher, seven seven ceramics, Sharon Louden, Clintel Steed, Scott Teplin, Julie Torres.