The opening reception for in·tu·i·tion will take place at 4:30 p.m. on July 14 in 0102, Visual Arts Center. The artists are Tommy Gregory, Stina Köhnke, Eric Rannestad, Deborah Vogel, and Jenny Swanson.
On view from July 14 to Aug 23, 2026.
This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Jacob H. Strauss '22 Memorial Fund.
Stina Köhnke:
As if in a dream, pseudo circuitry and coiled wires convey a rhythmic interplay. The potential action waits. Magnetic transfers animate the winding, branched wires. A sense of anticipation is held in the bent springs. The worn objects carry the residual memory of the past owners. Hidden voids and clasped lids add to the unease. The familiar is not quite recognizable.
Tommy Gregory is a Seattle based artist and the Public Art Program Sr. Manager and Curator for the Port of Seattle. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 2005 and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009. After graduate school, Gregory’s career in art administration began. He was the Public Art Specialist for the City of San Antonio, which led to his move back to Houston when he accepted the position of Public Art Program Director and Curator for the Houston Airports. In his position with the Port of Seattle, Gregory oversees conservation, commissions and acquisition as well as temporary art at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Eric Rannestad (b. 1996, Chester, CT) is an artist interested in the gaps that accumulate between model and ground. His work folds these models, their instruments, and sites of registration into new affective forms for exploring uncertainty and fantasy, feedback and containment. Rannestad holds a BA in Studio Art and Environmental Economics from Whitman College and a Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has attended residencies at the I-Park Foundation, Wassaic Project, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and Vermont Studio Center as a Clowes Fund Fellow. He has held solo exhibitions at Chilli Gallery, London; Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge, MA; and the Emerson Center for the Arts, Bozeman, MT. His work has been featured in New American Paintings, and in 2026 he received a Creative Individuals Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His design research and environmental conservation projects across the American West inform his practice.
Jenny Swanson:
After many years working in clay, my work is always becoming, evolving. I use "ancient technologies" of hand building, high-fire glazes, & terra sigillata for sculpture and wall pieces. My relationship to what's around me in the surrounding natural environment of Cornish, NH, is an important inspiration. Observations of organic form, plant growth, unexpected beauty and randomness become departure points for abstract stoneware or earthenware forms. Building pieces feels optimistic in a time when there is so much chaos.
Deborah Vogel graduated from Dartmouth in 1994. She lives and works in Seattle, Washington.