CIVIL TWILIGHT
Lauren Anderson, Jonny Campolo, Shanti Grumbine

January 31 - March 8, 2026

Opening reception January 31st 4-7 pm, 2026

We are talking about a certain kind of light in a particular place at a specific time. Or maybe it’s a random place at a random time. It could be a feeling you get while you’re out on a moonless night and you catch a glimpse into the glowing interior of a stranger’s window, framed in darkness. Or maybe it’s the way time collapses when you step inside a waiting room, glancing around for a seat and something to focus on. It could be the subtlety of the quality of light emerging from somewhere unseen and the bigness of its shadow cast across the room. Perhaps, in truth, it is that light from that lamp that only existed in that place some time ago. 

Shanti Grumbine’s ongoing series of gel pen drawings stippled on black paper is sourced from an archive of nighttime snapshots of windows seen from the outside. Offset by a black grid, each drawing frames a hazy, glowing, tableau. They are complimented by Jonny Campolo’s obsessively crafted Turn Off’s, a series of stained glass night lights and hanging lamps that evoke the human body and 70s cartoon motifs, a stylistic meeting place of Tiffany’s and Pizza Hut. Like screens in a reception area, Campolo and Grumbine’s work constellates a site responsive installation by Lauren Anderson who has constructed furniture to evoke a waiting room. Benches and side tables support ceramic relics of a forgotten time, when people read magazines while waiting for an appointment. Each artist in the show delves into the marginal yet intimate moments so often passed over each day, giving an opportunity to look at the things that you see when you are not looking. 

LAUREN ANDERSON (b. 1983 Portsmouth, VA) works in expanded notions of painting and sculpture. She is observant in how perspectives are established, how objects, ideas, and images get from Point A to Point B, and the scope of forms, substrates, and portals that get them there. Her recent solo and group exhibitions include The Middle Ages, Roundabouts Now, Kingston NY (2025); 48 Hour Biography, Paradise Projects, Philadelphia, PA (2024); Talk Shop, VERSE Workshop, Red Hook, NY (2023); The First Show, CooCoo Barn, Hudson, NY (2020); Lax Attitude, AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles, CA (2018); among others. She has been awarded fellowships at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson) and Ox-Bow (MI). Anderson graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in Printmaking and received an MFA in Painting from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is currently an Artist-In-Residence at Bard College and lives and works in Kingston, NY. 

JONNY CAMPOLO (b. 1987, NH) lives and works in New York. Recent performances include  “Stop Club 57,” Museum of Modern Art, New York; “The Summit,” Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; and  “Send In The Clowns,” Freddy, Harris, NY. He has participated in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles  and Detroit, most recently with Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY; Jeff’s,  Detroit, MI; Safe Gallery, East Hampton, NY and with Ptolemy at NADA in Miami, FL. His work is held  in private and public collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, NY; the New York Public  Library; Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, CT; Los Angeles Contemporary Archive;  and Artforum International, NY. 

SHANTI GRUMBINE is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist. She has been an artist in residence at the Millay Colony, Ucross, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Women’s Studio Workshop, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, BRIC Workspace, Interlude Artist Residency, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Fellowships and grants include the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, River Valley Arts Collective Money and Materials Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Grant, Taking Care Fund, A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, and the LABA Fellowship at the 14th Street Y. Select exhibition venues include The Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, Dorsky Museum, CCA Sante Fe, Love Apple Art Space, Magnan-Metz Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Planthouse Gallery, PS 122, Smack Mellon, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, and IPCNY. Shanti received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.