Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster: Don't Be A Stranger presents twelve paintings made in mourning for another painter, someone Lancaster loved. Drawing on photo archives, memories, and a phone she came to think of as a modern reliquary — preserving texts, photos, and voice notes — the works use pixelization as a form of concealment, alluding to the fragile, corporate-held nature of our digital memories. Neither hagiography nor pure elegy, the paintings hold joy and grief together, commemorating a relationship in full — its good and bad — while meditating on how we carry someone's absence forward.
