Not To Be Sold Loose | Sam Marroquin, Ketzia Schoneberg, Khytul Abyad, and Lou Blumberg
Curated by Simeen Anjum
Exhibition: January 27th - April 4th, 2025
Opening Reception: January 31st, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
This exhibition, featuring a collection of self-portraits by Sam Marroquin, Ketzia Schoneberg, Khytul Abyad, and Lou Blumberg, explores the complex relationship between individual and collective identity. Challenging the idea of the self as a distinct, isolated entity, these works reveal how personal identities are not singular but are deeply interconnected with the broader social and cultural contexts we inhabit, suggesting that we are part of a larger whole—much like items that are not meant to be separated from their collective context.
Artist Bios:
Khytul Abyad is an interdisciplinary artist from Kashmir, India. Her work explores themes of displacement, memory, identity, and community.Her artistic practice is driven by a deep engagement with personal and collective histories, bridging cultural and geographical boundaries to explore the complexities of belonging, identity, and selfhood.
Ketzia Schoneberg is a contemporary American artist who works with mixed-media paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Her feminist autobiographical works combine elements culled from her active dream life, long standing meditation practice, personal unconscious, cultural background and affinity with wildlife and environmental concerns to create an esoteric interplay of characters. Using figurative and abstract elements, she investigates movement-based plays of power, the erotic, and sensuality with vivid color and loose mark making.
Lou Blumberg is an artist, facilitator, and educator with connections to San Francisco, New Orleans, and Portland. Their practice explores themes of conflict and its impact on relationships, surveillance and safety, decolonization, and finding joy in difficult times. Lou’s work is thoughtful, tender, courageous, and filled with love. They are currently based in Portland, where they are pursuing an MFA in Art and Social Practice at Portland State University.
Sam Marroquin is a visual artist based out of Washington. Through paint and collage, she investigates our shared common truth and the ways that news is published, understood, and documented. Her work examines the transmission and dissemination of information, manipulation of reality, and how it comprises our collective experience of fact and fiction.
