ANDLAB Gallery proudly presents Alyssa Rogers, Leslie Barton, and Caley O’Dwyer with Known, Unknown: A Portrait of Figures that Surround Our Lives, a three-person painting exhibition.

The exhibition expresses our innermost need to connect and interact with other beings around us. Together, we learn that we are interdependent on one another – and the processes of this interdependence are the very ones that not only connect, but also carry, our lives.

Artist and ceramicist Alyssa Rogers composes her visual poetry from seemingly heterogeneous fragments, juxtaposing the semiotics of highbrow and lowbrow, magical and intellectual, masculine and feminine, ancient and contemporary. Through her anachronistic experiments with TikTok witches, stills from Fritz Lang films, tarot cards, and Hausa Architecture, she embarks on her personal journey to seek art that is universally human.

Photographer and painter Leslie Barton is drawn to the endless and fascinating stories that generate from the infinite number of interconnections between humans living amongst humans. She interprets these extraordinarily endearing stories from ordinary domestic life through her ‘Thicket’ painting series – embodying harmony, sympathy, unity, and intimacy, but also sadness, discord, antagonism, and contention. In her ‘Guardian’ series she gives rise to her own imaginary guardian angels: the personal protectors, or spirits, that keep her loved ones from evil.

Poet, psychotherapist, and painter Caley O'Dwyer imagines in ethereal oasis in a metaversal escape from our fast-paced and stressful contemporary lives. He renders both individual and societal manifestations of humor and leisure, producing familiar elements of life in a fantastical manner. In doing so, he creates and documents the scenes in which humanities novel virtues intermingle, converge, and disperse.