Kianja Strobert’s terracotta shards lined with electroluminescent wire will be arranged site-specifically as a sculpture-littered field with shifting temporal contexts – archeological references to broken artifacts set against technologically current neon outlines. The luminous line operates as a kind of contour drawing, delineating the broken edges of the fragment in a way that is suggestive of the energetic force which shattered the whole.

Max Hooper Schneider’s life-size photoluminescent Beluga whale skeleton will dominate Basilica’s North Hall. Referencing museological display and luminous phenomena in mineral and biological strata, this elegiac installation builds on the artist’s ongoing investigation of scientific and ontological subjects. The sculpture will be presented as a disarticulated glowing bone field accompanied by an original soundscape by musician Jorge Elbrecht.

Two poured and stratigraphically pigmented wax portals by JPW3 (J Patrick Walsh III) will be installed in the main hall. The pair represent a conflation of two previous works by the artist – Season 4, an earlier iteration of the wax portal form, intertwined with Hot Pot Charmer, a tangle of industrial detritus suspended tendril-like and dipped in melted wax by a performance-activated mechanical winch.

Sayre Gomez will present several of his airbrush paintings which interrogate the processes implicit in the proliferation of images in order to reveal mechanics of understanding and the location of meaning. In spite of his interest in the disenfranchisement of the original image’s physical presence, the artist’s masterful use of airbrush draws attention to painting’s illusionistic appropriation of real light in glowing, saturated picture planes.

Additional works include a singed, torn and pigment-saturated flokati carpet painting by Anna Betbeze, a series of colored resin portrait busts by Ben Pruskin, Becca Mann’s large-scale monochromatic oil painting Tiger, and a selection of paintings from mineral sample slides by Simone Montemurno. The show will present unique polaroids by Jessie Mann, a kaleidoscopic video projection by Crystal Z Campbell, large format landscape photography by Kurt Mangum, who manipulates technical malfunction to capture light and colors not actually observable, a site- specific acrylic sculpture by Robbie McDonald, which discourses on illusion and the recurrent theme of floating light in monotheistic spiritual traditions, as well one example of Marlo Pascual’s elegant rematerialization of found photographs.