Nowhere It Was
Terra Keck, Rose Malenfant, Hannah Rust
Curated by Greg Dzurita
March 25th - April 19th, 2026
Opening reception, March 25th 6-8pm
The concept of thin places describes a phenomenon in which the world briefly feels porous. Where the boundary between what is presently seen and what is felt, remembered, or sensed softens. These places are defined not by location but subtle shifts in perception. Time falls away. Presence deepens. The ordinary world opens toward something stranger and more elusive. Something that isn’t “there”.
Within visual experience, thin places can appear through common forms that act as vessels, carrying traces of memory and spirit. The human form becomes a portal rather than a fixed identity. These forms can observe, diffuse, or glow with an interior charge. They exist between states of being and invite contemplation.
Light, color, and space shape this thinness. What matters is not clarity, but proximity. There’s a sense of standing close to something that cannot be fully named, where being only partially revealed heightens the feeling of presence.
It asks for stillness and attention, offering a moment where the visible world leans toward the unseen, and the image becomes a site of quiet crossing.
Terra Keck’s eraser drawings explore the nature of our world and consciousness through the metaphor of the UFO. Keck’s background in occult magic shapes her to approach this metaphor, as does her conviction that our universe, at its core, is a benevolent and creative place. In erasing layers of graphite and watercolor, her reductive process centers around a pair of questions: when things in our world progress, what is left behind? What do negative spaces in our cosmic story reveal? Keck’s eraser drawings depict the environment and setting where metaphysical encounters can take place.
Rose Malenfant’s hanging sculpture provides the veil between this world and the one beyond. Her work is created with materials from where the external world is taken in, transformed, and remembered. Through slow, ritualized processes rooted in family traditions, Malenfant’s pairing of organic food and synthetic materials emphasizes what in our world is lost, fragmented, or artificially replaced. Her sculptures are quiet altars that hold traces of touch, time, and memory. To Synthesize a Veil courses with delicate, subtle tension, inviting viewers to the site between physical presence and ethereal visitation.
The figures found in Hannah Rust’s paintings observe the observer. They carry an otherworldly energy that disrupts the familiar and sits on the edge between harmony and disorder, the normal and the ominous. Are they spirits we knew in a past life? Are they figures visiting from the future, warning us of perils to come? Her work confronts the unresolved tension between our world’s history and the precarious energy that surrounds us. Rust’s paintings appear to either watch our every move in our most routine daily activities, or wait for us at our most sacred places.
To encounter a thin place is to enter a threshold, where stillness and attention are rewarded with revelation. Colors shift, edges dissolve, light changes. Here, observation does not confirm sight; it pierces it.
Artist Bios
Terra Keck is an artist, curator, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and her BFA from Ball State University. She is a partner at Field Projects Gallery in Chelsea, and cohosts the comedy-educational podcast “Witch, Yes!” Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts and can be found in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and California. She is a regular contributing writer to Artspiel, Impulse Magazine, and Artefuse.
Rose Malenfant is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice reinterprets rituals of textiles, the kitchen, and family memories, to de-industrialize our relationships with our bodies/ earth. Rose is a recipient of the 2026 Powerhouse Arts Artist Subsidy Program and has completed residencies with Textile Arts Center and Beam Center. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country including at the World Trade Center, Silver Arts Projects, El Barrio Art Space, and Tempest Gallery. She has received awards from The Art Students League of New York, Agrichampions in food innovation, and the International Society of Experimental Artists. Rose continues to invest in her practice with the Textile Study Group of New York and Women Sculptors Group NY. Integral to her work, Rose invests in community initiatives leading workshops with the Brooklyn Museum, designing public art and programming with Beam Center and curating exhibitions with community spaces like Textile Arts Center.
Hannah Rust (b. 1998, MA) received her BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (2023), where she was a recipient of the George Nick Prize. Her first solo show, Under The Mesh Throes, opened at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, MA. (2025). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Chautauqua Institution and Byrdcliffe Artist Colony. She currently lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
Field of Play is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) contemporary art gallery in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Founded in 2022 by Matty Logsdon and run by a dedicated team of artists and curators, the gallery is fueled by a shared belief in the power of art to spark change and inspire meaningful dialogue. FoP presents artist-driven exhibitions and programming that expand visibility for emerging and underrepresented artists, connect diverse ideas, and foster a collaborative community.
Field of Play is located at 56 2nd Ave, Suite 21, Brooklyn, NY 11215
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