Mario Gallucci and Danielle Gottesman’s Threshold exists in a space between the remembered past and the imagined future. Using the metaphor of architectural transition—going from inside or outside—Threshold suspends the transitions that happen within a given space, both physically and mentally.

The two artists explore how one’s past or future are tied to emotional cues within the constructed environment. Gallucci’s photographed boarded-up windows of a condemned building and sculpted dying houseplants honor obsolescence while evoking a sense of loss. Gottesman’s sculptures, crafted out of architectural and graphic design symbols for a yet to be built space, possess features borrowed from old, traditional tools yet harness a sense of newness and anticipation at the same time.

United by a shared interest in material and surface both artists morph familiar sentiments through unexpected methods of production challenging the meanings of everyday symbols and objects and thereby making the Threshold, once again, transitory.

Mario Gallucci received his BA from Elon University and his MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at One Grand Gallery (Portland), HQHQ (Portland), and Art & Chemistry (Greensboro, NC). Group exhibitions include The Art Gallery at the University of West Florida (Pensacola, FL), the Parrish Gallery at the Chehalem Cultural Center (Newberg, OR), Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland), and the University of Alberta Art & Design GSA (Alberta, Canada). Gallucci lives and works in Portland, OR.

Danielle Gottesman received her BA in Fine Art at the Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London and has completed programs at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. She has exhibited worldwide, including at Inga Gallery in Tel Aviv, Peninsula Art Space in Brooklyn, NDSM wharf in Amsterdam, and The Muse Gallery in London. Gottesman lives and works in NYC.