American Archive 2026 presents paintings and drawings by Jessica McGarry Bartlet documenting lived experience in a time of profound social tension. The exhibition moves between figurative works that register political consequence and landscapes that attend to endurance and quiet presence. Rather than resolution, the work holds rupture and restoration within the same field. "Is this rhythm of rupture and restoration simply part of being human?" Together, the works map a practice of witnessing grounded in attention to both strain and survival.
