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Pell Lucy’s latest online exhibit, Indwellers/Outdwellers, is now live through January 2026 on Artsy. Here’s the link.
From the curatorial statement:
“Artists are both indwellers—immersed in the internal terrains of memory, thought, and form—and outdwellers, operating at the fringes of convention, often estranged from the very systems and narratives they address. To make art is to straddle these positions, navigating a tension between intimacy and distance, between belonging and resistance.”
Here’s a few more works included in the show as well as the full curatorial statement.
Andra Samelson, Linked In
Diane McGregor, Buried Landscape
Elizabeth Mead, SanFranciscoWilliamsburg01
John Richardson, Segment G
Denise Manseau, Unsettled Sails
Indwellers/Outdwellers
Curatorial Statement
The word dwell originates from the Old English dwellan, meaning “to lead astray” or “to go astray,” before evolving into its more familiar sense: “to remain” or “to inhabit.”
This linguistic shift—from wandering to staying—mirrors the paradox at the heart of the creative process. Indwellers/Outdwellers explores this in-between space of art-making: at once rooted and askew.
Artists are both indwellers—immersed in the internal terrains of memory, thought, and form—and outdwellers, operating at the fringes of convention, often estranged from the very systems and narratives they address. To make art is to straddle these positions, navigating a tension between intimacy and distance, between belonging and resistance.
This exhibition reflects on what it means to inhabit both roles simultaneously. These works wander across mediums, disciplines, and identities. The Pell Lucy artists are nomadic in spirit, drawn to liminal zones—between self and other, structure and intuition, tradition and disruption. Their practices reveal that to dwell as an artist is not to settle, but to remain within uncertainty long enough to be transformed by it.
By returning to the etymology of dwell, Indwellers/Outdwellers invites a reconsideration of home, process, and the act of making. These works do not trace a straight line; instead, they embrace the circuitous, the unresolved, and the contradictory. Here, being led astray is not a detour—it is the path itself. It is not a loss but a necessary, generative form of arrival.