To Hold a Form: Art with sound in the work of Jennie C. Jones, LaRissa Rogers and Naama Tsabar
August 19 – November 15, 2025
Can you hear a painting? Do artworks ever ask their viewers to listen? How can sound be employed by artists as a tool of resistance? These are some of the questions explored in the work of Jennie C. Jones, LaRissa Rogers and Naama Tsabar. The artists in this exhibition work creatively with sound, noise and silence to engage with a wide array of cultural, political, phenomenological and artistic questions.
To Hold a Form challenges us to consider the boundaries between sound and silence, the reverberations of historyand the interplay between sound and solid forms.
On Beauty - August 21-November 30, 2025 - Front Door Gallery
Sapira Cheuk relies on both sumi and India ink in her delicate, abstract paintings. One ink is water soluble and the other not, creating depth and material tension in her monochromatic work. The negotiation of medium is constant, sometimes the inks blend and sometimes they don’t, just part of the many bargains the artist makes between ornamentation and function, the ephemeral and the permanent, and the body and the spirit. The heart of the negotiation is a perennial question Cheuk asks in her practice, “what does it mean to make beautiful art?”
Sapira Cheuk is an ink painter and installation artist interested in proprioception, ways of knowing through the body, and how these modes of knowledge reflect or internalize external experiences. Cheuk has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including those at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Royal Society of Art, London, UK, Center for Contemporary Art Texas, Pablo Center for the Arts, Eau, Masur Museum, and Yellowstone Art Museum. Cheuk works for the Nevada Arts Council, teaches at the College of Southern Nevada, and serves as the Chair for the City of Las Vegas Art Commission. She received her BA at the University of California, Riverside, and MFA from California State University, San Bernardino.