Fairy Houses

Fairy Houses

Carrie Adamson, Clara Campos, Sierra Iturrino, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu, Tiantian Ma, and Christina Welzer

Curated by Wesley Ware

July 11th, 2026 - August 2nd, 2026

The underside of the leaf

Cool in shadow

Sublimely unemphatic

Smiling of innocence

The frailest stems Quivering in light

Bend and break

In silence

This poem, like the paintings, is not really about nature. It is not what is seen. It is what is known forever in the mind.

-Agnes Martin

Field of Play presents Fairy Houses, a group exhibition curated by Wesley Ware. Crafting tiny homes for fairies from materials found in nature is a phenomenon in numerous parts of the world. Humanity’s increasingly removed relationship with nature has made places untouched by man feel beautiful, magical, and mysterious. In our minds and myths, forests have the potential to provide shelter to all kinds of magical and supernatural creatures. Fairy houses are made by people inspired by the spiritual force of nature, attempting to amplify its innate magical feeling. The six artists included in Fairy Houses welcome pixies and sprites into the gallery through artworks that reflect the feelings of perfection, enormity, and mystery one experiences under the shadow of shifting leaves.

Carrie Adamson’s process of using small bits of recycled fabric embedded in colored spackle looks like the masterful tiling of a tiny magical creature. Scenes and objects from Adamson’s everyday life are abstracted into mosaic-like objects that feel as though they were excavated from a long-gone mythical civilization. Adamson’s work meditates on the physical states mass-produced objects take on as they pass through time. The countless small fabric shapes, with textured spackle paste and fluid acrylic weaving in between, feel lovingly placed piece by piece, accumulating into a fantastic pixelated image of a lamp, table, or otherwise ordinary object.

Clara Campos’ Tiny Worlds are miniatures of bedrooms and homes scaled to the size of a fairy. The outer shell and many of the interior furnishings are made of found objects, adorned with paper and fabric. The spaces Campos creates feel lived in, cozy, and transformative. A thimble becomes a trash can. A button becomes a plate. The impossibly detailed interiors invite both the viewer and whatever small magical creature passing by to come inside and take a look around.

Tiantian Ma paints ethereal oil paintings that feel as much like landscapes as they do emotions, spirits, or forces of nature. Light refracts and shimmers off objects composed of unknown material. Lines of energy cut through the landscape before getting reabsorbed. Ma’s work celebrates the inherent spirituality of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all living things. She attempts to mimic the complex flow of nature through her oil paint and acrylic medium to harmonize with and spread appreciation of the divinity of nature.

Sierra Iturrino uses colored pencils, watercolors, and pens to draft ethereal spaces, placing one at the intersection of magic and nature. Her highly intricate drawings range from insects, figures, and forests to ribbons, spirals, and abstract shapes that seem to shift in and out of reality through Sierra’s mix of stippling and smooth blending of colors. Iturrino’s works instill the immensity and interconnectedness of the natural world within the viewer. 

Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu’s work is comprised of an assortment of ribbons, buttons, wallpaper, cardboard, paint, and a variety of other mass-produced objects found or purchased from the streets of New York to the ribbon markets of Taiwan. Lu has developed her own distinct visual language that’s as reliant on materials and brush strokes as it is on installation and relation to neighboring pieces. Many of her artworks have multiple components, such as painted cardboard sculptures (reminiscent of desserts in a display case or even tiny shops themselves) resting on top a canvas or ribbons that drape and reach out to orbiting artworks. Lu works closely with each of her materials, developing, manipulating, and adorning their surfaces in various ways to embed an interior life and will to endure within each work. 

Pieced together from watercolor-washed paper and magazine clippings, Christina Welzer creates figures that are beautiful and elegant, uncanny and tense. The various pieces come together to form different textures, body parts, and shadows. Welzer’s figures are human, floral, and insect-like. Appearing as creatures trapped, on display, or escaping on horseback, Welzer’s pieces evoke a sense of peril and unrest that plagues her beautiful and fragile creations. Figures on both sides of a hanging screen cast shadows that complete scenes and transform as the viewer walks around them. This constant state of transformation is echoed by the assemblage of fangs, petals, claws, and glittering tears that make up the bodies of Welzer’s creatures.

Field of Play is located at 126 13th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday from 1-6 PM, and by appointment

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ARTIST BIOS

Carrie Adamson

Carrie Adamson is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent work combines spackling, acrylic, and fabric to create textured abstractions inspired by mundane geometries and imagery drawn from mass produced objects. Through these compositions, she explores the tension between transience and permanence.

Carrie holds a BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and has exhibited her work in numerous group exhibitions at artist-run spaces, including Sultry (Richmond, VA), Kings Leap + Freddy (Harris, NY), and Ladybug (Providence, RI).

Clara Campos

Clara Campos create “Tiny Worlds”—miniature environments that bring viewers into narrative-driven, intimate spaces. Her work is rooted in a long-standing fascination with scale, space, and hidden places. Campos’ process starts with a kind of visual translation: seeing one thing and understanding it as another. A thimble becomes a garbage can; a bead becomes a lamp; a button, a plate.

Sierra Iturrino

Sierra Iturrino is a visual artist from Hudson Valley, New York. Through depicting imagery of powerful female entities and insects engulfed in soft, otherworldly atmospheres, her work transmutes and reclaims a sense of silent power. Her intricate mark-making is a reflection of the detailed rhythms of the natural world, as she seeks to honor our relationship to the planet and its creatures through magnifying the microscopic.

Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu

Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu (b. 2000, Taipei, Taiwan) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice explores material construction, psychological fortification, and drifting. Drawing inspiration from city grids, mass-produced ephemera, and architectural forms, she embraces structural approaches that combine oil and acrylic with ribbons, cardboard, and found objects. Her work has been included in exhibitions at White Columns (New York, NY), Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR), Morgan Lehman (New York, NY), National Arts Club (New York, NY), Romance (Pittsburgh, PA), Iowa (Brooklyn, NY), and Melrose Botanical Garden (Los Angeles, CA). Lu holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design.

Tiantian Ma

Chinese-born, in 1997, and New York-based, Tiantian Ma received her B.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute in 2020. Oil and acrylic resin are her main medium. Tiantian Ma’s paintings are a celebration of the natural world and its inherent spirituality. Inspired by the Transcendentalist philosophy that sees divinity in nature and the interconnectedness of all living things, Tiantian’s works are a meditation on the universal spirit that animates all creation.

Christina Welzer

Christina Welzer’s work transforms cut paper into fragile, hybrid forms that hover between beauty and disquiet—melding botanical delicacy, fragmented identity, and theatrical shadow into sculptural meditations on the body and spirit. Her works have been exhibited at NY Asian Arts Festival, Spring/Break NYC, Tunnel Projects Miami, Focus Art Fair NYC, and published in Hyperallergic, Far-Near, Chinatown Futures, and AAP Association Vol. 9. She received her BFA from Cornell University in May of 2019. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.