“Over + Under + Inside +Out”
Friday May 22 - July 1, 2026
Opening: Friday, May 22, 6-9pm
Over + Under + Inside + Out is an exhibition featuring the work of Will Hutnick (Sharon,CT) and Sally Paul (Kansas City, MO). The pairing highlights two painters whose process embraces visceral materiality. Tactile layers of pigment and color overlap, intersect, peek beyond and between; weaving wonky patterns of organic abstraction. These artists offer the viewer an inverted landscape, hinting at both futures and the literal horizon.
Will Hutnick (b. 1985) is an artist based in Sharon, CT. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. Hutnick is a 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and 2023, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016. Solo exhibitions include: High Noon (New York, NY), McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, OH), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), Simons Center Gallery at the College of Charleston (Charleston, SC), Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT), Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), One River School (Hartsdale, NY), The Java Project (Brooklyn, NY), and St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, NY). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Interlude Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Hewnoaks, Stove Works, and the Wassaic Project, as well as a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. He has curated numerous exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project, Troutbeck and Standard Space. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic, among others. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.
Sally Paul (b. 1974, Philadelphia, PA) is an artist living and working in Kansas City, MO. She is known for her sculptural relief paintings, her community-centered curatorial practice, and her work as an educator in museums and higher education.Paul has exhibited work at 57W57, Shelter, Essex Flowers, My Pet Ram, 247365, and The Arsenal Gallery in New York City; at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kansas City Public Library, PLUG, and EKRU Project in Kansas City; and at Dragon Crab Turtle in St. Louis. She has also presented work at Barley Fair with Good Naked in Chicago and at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair with Special Effects in Wisconsin. As a museum educator, Paul has taught at the Museum of Modern Art, the American Folk Art Museum, the International Center of Photography, and the Bronx Museum. She has organized curatorial projects at ArtSpace at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Cullman Education Center Gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, and Troost Gardens, an artist-run gallery she co-founded in 2020. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Two Coats of Paint. Paul holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MA in Art Education from New York University, and was a 2022–2024 Visual Art Resident at Charlotte Street.
