CUSP

These artworks never quite settle into any realm but exist in ambiguity within an ever-shifting environment.

Brian Dickerson · Melinda Stickney-Gibson · Millicent Young

The Hyde Collection

161 Warren Street

Glens Falls, New York, 12801

January 25 - March 30, 2025

Curated by Jen Dragon

Cusp presents three contemporary artists whose work in different media hover between the known and the unknowable. Their artworks are in flux as paintings transform into sculptures, works on paper evoke memories, and a three-dimensional installation recites poetry. These artworks never quite settle into any realm but exist in ambiguity within an ever-shifting environment.

Brian Dickerson's paintings are structured from aggregated surfaces, rich with energetic brushwork enveloping angular, constructed elements. As the sculpted paintings interact with light, the edges and apertures recombine, forming endlessly shifting topographies.

Melinda Stickney-Gibson's delicate drawings, paintings, and installations meditate on memory. Cryptic phrases, trembling lines, and blurred forms emerge through glowing layers of wax, paper, and paint, much as conscious thought morphs into spontaneous imagination before sleep.

Millicent Young’s installations of hair, wood, and clay create contemplative spaces for reflecting on loss—both personal and collective. Drawing on humble materials, Young weaves, sculpts, and scribes metaphors drawn from ancient archetypes while sounding an alarm for a fragile future.

As visual poets, Dickerson, Stickney-Gibson, and Young capture the transformation from what is seen to what is felt. The artists invite us to tolerate the unknown, opening portals between a concrete and intuitive world.