CIVIL TWILIGHT
Lauren Anderson, Shanti Grumbine, Jonny Campolo

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 are sourced from an archive of night-time snapshots of windows seen from the outside. Offset by a black grid, each drawing frames an intimate hazy glowing scene. 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 70’s cartoon motifs, stylistic meeting place of Tiffany and Pizza Hut. Like screens in a waiting room, Campolo and Grumbine’s work constellate 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.