KYLE AGNEW / MARISOL CERVANTES / ALI HVAL
RAINBOW IN LIMBO

SEPTEMBER 5 - OCTOBER 17, 2025

EVENTS

RECEPTION
Friday, September 12, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 
Wege Gallery 

GALLERY TALKS WITH KYLE AGNEW & ALI HVAL
Saturday, September 13, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Wege Gallery

WEEKEND HOURS
Open Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm through October 12

Rainbow in Limbo brings together the work of artists Kyle Agnew, Marisol Cervantes, and Ali Hval. Presenting photography, sculpture and painting, the exhibition reveals how the artists maneuver around their subject matter—bending and shaping idiosyncratic responses to their own personal histories and present-day realities. The work finds a familiar thread in ideas of the body—bodies in relationship to one another, picked apart and abstracted, as a viewer overlooking the landscape, and extended through adornment and accessories. Offered up as vibrant, sparkly and seductive, the artists’ work plays with viewers’ expectations as a closer look reveals deeper introspection and exploration of contemporary bodies and identities. Indicating the constant necessity to be pliable, amenable, and ever cheerful, the artists in Rainbow in Limbo show their adeptness at flaunting the subtext.

Kyle Agnew’s photographic investigations explore the Indiana Dunes and the prairies of Iowa. Their work challenges over-simplified views of queer love by expanding naturalist, heteronormative narratives of the landscape. Agnew’s keyed-up color palette serves to emphasize nature’s extravagance, glamour and grace.

Chicago-based artist Marisol Cervantes explores family dynamics, personal narrative, and womanhood through large-scale abstract paintings. Using vibrant colors and organic shapes in her process allows her to revive memories and past interactions, giving them space to reconstitute into something tangible and new.

Iowa-based artist Ali Hval challenges and redefines gender disparities and the relentless scrutiny and politicization of the female body. In Hval’s ceramic and mixed-media work, familiar embellishments for the body are impossibly scaled to become physically weighty. In this transformation, a delicate charm bracelet with jewel encrusted ornaments flaunts its ability to do the heavy lifting.

Curated by Genevra Daley