Transmitter

Transmitter is pleased to present ‘Point of No Return’ , a solo exhibition by James Parker Foley. Made
across a period of profound personal transformation, this exhibition brings together two bodies of
drawings; a group of graphite images begun during a residency in Mississippi in October 2022, and a
subsequent body of colored pencil works begun in October 2023.
The first body of drawings emerged while the artist was privately grappling with a desire to live as a
gay man. This secret desire became the narrative undercurrent for a hidden fantasy world, drawn on
intimately-scaled paper in the vulnerable medium of graphite. The colored pencil works that followed
a year later, after the artist had begun to transition, wrestle with what it means to be a man, and how
to build a life for himself as a trans person.
Together the two bodies of work reveal a landscape that tackles and celebrates multiple perspectives
(internal, emotional and spatial). The relationship between the corporeal and the spiritual are not
always in-sync as we move through our lives. Inevitably, we all experience the tension as well as the
interdependence of the material and immaterial as we move through developments of self-discovery.
The body and soul can be quarrelsome, mischievously inseparable companions that are bound to each
other even as they pull in different directions, and they can also unite in moments of ecstasy and a
perfect conversion.

the gallery is closed this weekend for Labor Day and will reopen next Saturday 9/12 and Sunday 9/13 1-6pm

see you then 🌞
pictured: James Foley detail of “Sympathetic Resonance”, 2024 colored pencil on paper 17x14 inches

“Point of No Return” is on view thru September 27th

Thank you Sophia Wright for such a beautifully articulate review!
So happy these wonderful artists were (deservingly) acknowledged!

Come see these gems in person! A must see drawing show! Opening reception this Saturday (8/29) 6-8p

Point of No Return

JAMES PARKER FOLEY James Foley

AUGUST 22 – SEPTEMBER 27, 2026

🔹OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 6-8pm
🔹ARTIST TALK: SEPTEMBER 19, 4-5:30pm

🔹Transmitter is pleased to present Point of No Return, a solo exhibition by James Parker Foley. Made across a period of profound personal transformation, this exhibition brings together two bodies of drawings; a group of graphite images begun during a residency in Mississippi in October 2022, and a subsequent body of colored pencil works begun in October 2023.

“Do I know you from Somewhere?”
July 17 – August 16, 2026
Susan Meyer Susan Meyer
Knot, 2024
Squid, 2024
Straddle, 2024

ALISON KUDLOW • SUSAN MEYER • HANNA WASHBURN • SE YOUNG YIM

On View: July 18 – August 16th, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, July 17, 6 – 8 PM

Our deeply human, compulsive nature to scan the world for ourselves is a feature, not a bug. That damp stain on your ceiling that registers as a face? That vase on your shelf that, in the right light, remakes itself as a small figure? Psychologists call this pareidolia: the tendency to impose meaningful forms and patterns onto ambiguous or arbitrary objects and surfaces. Essentially, it’s to find meaning and presence where none was intended. We do this constantly and involuntarily, and it can offer moments of discovery, fear, and joy, but often it’s a flicker we ignore or quickly move past. When that awareness causes pause, and we linger on it with attention or conviction, we call it anthropomorphism.


This sculpture exhibition is preoccupied with our inclination to find ourselves – our bodies, and their residue – in materials and forms that are distinctly inanimate. The works included here remind us of the unsettling frequency with which organic forms echo human presence: posture, tension, weight, intention.


The materials these artists engage with vary from organic and mundane to chemical and technical, reinforcing the sense that our desire to invoke the human form and spirit happens across every register of sensitivity. Hanna Washburn Alison Kudlow Susan Meyer Se Young Yim