JULY 22ND – SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2022

What does it look like when we extend reverence to animals in death? Why don’t we afford these creatures the same honor and acknowledgement as our own deceased? Why do we, as a society, overlook these encounters with death, a fate that binds us all? These are the questions that Amanda Stronza and Rachel Ivanyi explore in their joint exhibition, Kindred Spirits. Stronza is an anthropologist, conservationist and photographer based in Austin, Texas. She painstakingly creates exquisite memorials for the bodies of animals that she finds: individuals who are often disregarded as “roadkill”. Ivanyi is an award winning artist, art educator and illustrator with a background in scientific illustration, based out of Tucson, Arizona. Her scrupulously rendered paintings and drawings sit in delicate conversation with Amanda’s memorial photographs. Ivanyi’s work allows viewers the time to take in the gravity of loss as it pertains to these animal others.