"Thanks to impermanence, everything is  possible." ~ Nhat Hanh

Elijah Wheat Showroom is enthralled to present a group photography exhibition about accepting impermanence, “Unfixxxed,” in its Newburgh, NY kunsthalle. The show will begin on 18 October and run through 15 December, 2025. with an opening celebration on 25 October from 4PM-8PM. Artists’ works included are:

Alex Yudzon

Ana Mendieta

Azikiwe Mohammed

Ghost of a Dream

Gordon Matta-Clark

Heather Renee Russ

Jackie Furtado

Johannah Herr

Jon Verney

Lauren Silberman

Liz Nielsen

Marlos E’van

Michal Rovner

Shirin Neshat

Tianyi Zhang

Young Sun Han

The fleeting moments of light in life captured, contained and presented are more than just a decisive recording of wavelengths. They’re thoughtful exchanges between the materiality of our Earthly forms and the spirit that lingers in our meat-suit. Conceptually, the most remarkable thing about photography is that its imagery will never change, it stays still. Yet, the setting, the people, the artists are all affected by time. Upending the contemporary burst of social shutter, public image-makers’ current obsession with documenting and curating their memories fall prey to these experimental, sometimes non-representational image makers, ‘drawing with light.’ Instantaneous gratification is far from what

artists  in this exhibition represent. They conjure the soul’s permanence, and suspend beliefs of finite corporality.

Amongst this daunting national crisis, we are brought together in-person again to examine our relationship to image making with the hopes to find comfort in that which we already know: The only constant is change. Impermanence of our lifetimes on Earth, our fleeting joys, as we contemplate the polarities. Such as, the joys of experiencing pleasure, only if we’ve already known pain. We are brought to the space to acknowledge our rage, our anger, our duty to stand-up in the face of prescribed fear mongering.

The spirit of art shifts too, with the powers-that-be. Someone recently shared an idea with me. This has spurred the foundation of thought towards this photo exhibition about accepting impermanence.

In a Theocracy, art is a reliquary.

In a Capitalist society, art is a commodity.

In an Authoritarian society, art is propaganda.

Using the gallery platform for activism, Elijah Wheat cheers the intellects, the critical thinkers, the breadth of creatives doing what they know best to resist a political nightmare.  We engage what we can to encourage conversations and transformation, and to build a thriving resistance.

"By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something it could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life." ~ William Braxton Irvine

Elijah Wheat Showroom (est. 2015) is a New York-based artist-run gallery and nomadic curatorial experience founded by Carolina Wheat & Liz Nielsen. Currently positioned in Newburgh, NY on the Hudson River, in two buildings comprising 5000 sq/ft of an historic factory. The gallery is named after their late son, Elijah, whose creative insight, righteous vision, perceptive being and stylistic voice for trendsetting embody the spirit that the Showroom honors. Elijah Wheat  artists are socially conscientious, politically engaged and reflective of a creative community striving to cultivate meaningful  interactions and instigate conversations about craft/concepts of aesthetics within  gallery commerciality. We promote the diversity of artists' voices with contemplative messages through a determination to make visual culture part of our everyday life, while advocating for visual art’s accessibility to varied audiences.