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Panteaha Abareshi, The Ward (2025) Rubber, cotton fibers, stainless steel, polycarbonates, polyurethanes, fiberglass, glass, and medical ephemera In his 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholia”, Sigmund Freud separates melancholia from mourning, or depression from grief, primarily by its interminable duration, in which ambivalence between love and hate for a desired object, cathexis and anticathexis, exhaust the subject in a manner that resembles a “an open wound,

Rack, Leaning, 2026. Wood, colored pencil on medical documents, deconstructed t-shirts, found scraps and remnants, found drawings and documents, colored pencil on deconstructed medical packaging, ginkgo leaves, ziplock bags, photocopies, tape, caulk, thread, quilting pens, wire. 100” H x 144” W x 12” D Photo credit: Mikey Mosher Photography The artist Joseph Grigley lost his hearing at the age of ten, and has for decades made work in a range of media that respond to or ref

Colossal Modality, 36" x 36", acrylic on panel, 2021 It seems curious that the work of renowned gay British mid-20th-century artist Francis Bacon, known for his idiosyncratic painterly abstractions of the human form, isn’t widely associated with disability. It’s true that Bacon, though being both asthmatic and an alcoholic, didn’t explicitly represent disabled bodies. And yet, his organically rendered and dynamically textured figures and portraits, their blurred energy often