Maria T. D. Inocencio and Mark R. Smith have joined forces to produce A Ring, an exhibition featuring each artist's independent work as well as a collaborative installation. Invoking the landscape and its boundless horizon, the artists have created work which investigates universal rhythms - units of time, natural systems, work patterns and the ongoing process of mortality and regeneration. While their themes are expansive, the artists each employ methods that are labor intensive and highly intimate, inviting close examination and identification with touch and materiality.

The exhibition borrows its title from W.S. Merwin's poem, A Ring, which ponders our place in the cosmos and alludes to an enduring desire to connect through conversation. By encircling the viewer with images that intersect and vibrate with line, texture and color, Inocencio and Smith hope to present a work that is beautiful in its component individual humanity and its myriad possibilities.