Collection: C4W 2025: To Enshrine A Memory

Every year, Gamut Gallery’s Call for Work draws submissions from artists working in a wide range of styles, mediums, and perspectives. This year, 167 artists submitted over 700 works for consideration. Guest curator Juleana Enright reviewed every submission and, through careful and intuitive selection, uncovered a resonant thematic thread. From this expansive collection, 34 works by 28 artists were chosen for the exhibition To Enshrine a Memory.

This year’s selected works collectively explore the tension between holding and releasing, between memory and renewal. They examine what it means to live well and how we might prepare ourselves to die well, too. Through natural materials, abstraction, ritual, and storytelling, these pieces reflect on our connections to land, body, ancestry, and impermanence.

To Enshrine a Memory invites viewers to consider: What are we memorializing? What offerings do we make to the past, and what residue do we leave behind for the future? These works become vessels of grief and hope, resistance and rest. Some whisper of what lies beneath the surface, of invisible prescriptions and buried truths. Others grant permission to exist in the unknown, to embrace rot and decay, and to welcome the precarious and the sacred to our tables.

Echoing ecofeminist author Sophie Strand’s words, “Everything is connected to something. But not everything is connected to everything. The differences are vital.” This exhibition is an invitation to reflect on our place in the web of life not as isolated individuals, but as interconnected beings navigating memory, death, and the vast, unknowable cycles of nature.