A certain courage is exposed when life is expressed in such a blistered tone. Each piece in WABI-SABI breathes an experience that we have not quite seen collectively before. Vulnerability and confidence move through this exhibit like wisdom, becoming exposed through its scars. WABI-SABI is a Japanese term that refers to that which is impermanent, imperfect, aged, humbled, and unconventional. It is a state of mind and a way of being. It expresses a whole new world of seeing. The rawness and purity in this exhibit are without limit.
![Brianna Taylor, natural hair, weave thread](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Taylor-Brianna2.jpg)
WABI-SABI
![Brianna Taylor, natural hair, weave thread](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Taylor-Brianna2-350x350.jpg)
Best of Show- In My Own Words
![Donna Bassin, digital photograph, pigment print, thread, encaustic](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bassin-Donna-350x350.jpg)
Director’s Choice- Precious Scars: Kyoto.Monk.8A
Donna Bassin
digital photograph, pigment print, thread, encaustic
Cedar Grove, New Jersey
![Lingxue Hao, lumen print](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Hao-Lingxue-350x350.jpg)
Director’s Choice- Ginkgo Leaves and Unknown Japanese Newspaper
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Holland-Linda-350x350.jpg)
seeking
Linda Holland
mixed media, photo transfers on acrylic on canvas
Albuquerque, New Mexico
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Connors-Samantha-350x350.jpg)
Domb
Samantha Connors
acquired metal grid, wool roving, thread
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/LaCasse-Jeanne-350x350.jpg)
Anthem
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OMeara-Kathyx2-350x350.jpg)
artifacts 1
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Thirunarayanan-Mandayam-380x380.jpg)
What Do You Think?
Mandayam Thirunarayanan
photography
Miami, Florida
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Manousos-Dave-CROPPED-3-350x350.jpg)
Unnoticed
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Welker-Lynn-2-350x350.jpg)
Memory Chambers
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mayer-Seth-350x350.jpg)
Wall Abstract #3
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Gerson-Gayle-350x350.jpg)
How Do We Know What's Important?
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lyman-Leslie-2-350x350.jpg)
Gone as Quickly as Spilt Milk
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wynes-Joyce-1-350x350.jpg)
Finding Some Quiet Spaces Among the Noise
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Davis-Flora-380x380.jpg)
Zadkiel
Flora Davis
patinated brass and steel center woven with a piece of geometrical cut brass-coated steel
San Francisco, California
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Sredl-Jean-350x350.jpg)
ALL THINGS PRECIOUS
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Craig-Briar-1-350x350.jpg)
BLACK AND WHITE AND RED
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Strauss-B-Stevens-350x350.jpg)
Testsugakusha (Philosopher)
B Stevens Strauss
raku fired ceramic with traditional Japanese wooden stand
Berkeley, California
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Richards-James-4-350x350.jpg)
Iron-Framed Sky Wood
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cuenot-bastien-350x350.jpg)
wabi-sabi
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nemec-vernita-350x350.jpg)
PS, Remember I Don't Love You
Vernita Nemec
discarded plastic packaging on rag board with paper
New York City, New York
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Morhous-Maidy-350x350.jpg)
Don't kill the goose!
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Newman-Ann-350x350.jpg)
Collage
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Schneberg-Willa-CROPPED-350x350.jpg)
Open Book Bejeweled
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Singelis-James-350x350.jpg)
Imperfect Self
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Davis-Rachel-1-350x350.jpg)
Roots #1
Rachel Davis
house paint, torn dictionary pages, packing paper
San Rafael, California
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Breitfeller-lynne-380x380.jpg)
After the Fire: Water Damaged Film, Sylvia
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kirsch-Marilyn-350x350.jpg)
Edges
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lee-Ying-Chiun-350x350.jpg)
Character I
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Vecchione-Dominic-350x350.jpg)
Screen & Squares
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/liu-shuhan-350x350.jpg)
Untitled
Shuhan Liu
ceramics
Morgantown, West Virginia
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bockheim-Anthony-350x350.jpg)
Time
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Marinari-Angela-350x350.jpg)
Shadows in Black and White
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Brooks-Alexa-350x350.jpg)
El Bruc
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Rothenberg-Danielx2-350x350.jpg)
Fixing the Seams
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ziselberger-Barbara-380x380.jpg)
A Calm Came Over Her Too
Barbara Ziselberger
cardboard boxes and gesso on hardwood panel
Silver Spring, Maryland
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Gruyer-Bertrand-350x350.jpg)
Chimeras 02
Bertrand Gruyer
photography
France
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Shevick-Jerry.jpg)
Night Tree 1
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DelVecchio-Milan-350x350.jpg)
Okeah Riba
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Schadler-Peggy-350x350.jpg)
My Blue Garden
Peggy Schadler
monoprint with gauze, teabags & momigami
Venice, Florida
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Peterson-Michael-380x380.jpg)
Welcome to the Machine
Michael Peterson
mixed media-canvas, rope, cardboard, carpet tacks, duct tape, leather, spray paint
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Gal-On-Ayelet-380x380.jpg)
Tempo
Ayelet Gal-On
mixed media-acrylic, puzzle paper and bark
San Jose, California
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dawdy-Cheryl-380x380.jpg)
Sliver
Cheryl Dawdy
collage-tissue paper, deli wrap paper, other assorted paper pieces, pencil
Ann Arbor, Michigan
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Adams-Jessica-350x350.jpg)
Ebullient
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Weston-Julia-350x350.jpg)
Interpret
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Cavalcanti-Adriana-1-350x350.jpg)
Solitude
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/gibson-laura-CROPPED-350x350.jpg)
Beauty in Imperfection
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/LeBlanc-Sheryl-380x380.jpg)
LeBlanc, Sheryl
Sheryl LeBlanc
fiber art
Patched Vessel
Eugene, Oregon
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ruest-Liz-1-350x350.jpg)
tumbling over itself eastward
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bardach-Nancy-350x350.jpg)
Slant Rhymes I: 'grace' and 'chaste'
Nancy Bardach
textiles, thread, Pellon stabilizer, monofilament, bamboo
Berkeley, California
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lange-Shauna-Lee-380x380.jpg)
The Nostepinne
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Rodrigues-Sabrina-350x350.jpg)
Untitled
Sabrina Rodrigues
newspaper and adhesive spray
London, England
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Glass-AnneKarin-350x350.jpg)
Hawk Wings
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Soliven-Elisa-350x350.jpg)
Bust #3
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mueller-Greg-CROPPED-350x350.jpg)
Transfigure #3 Yellow
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ornish-Marty-380x380.jpg)
Un r a ve li n g
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Hunter-Hannah-resize-350x350.jpg)
Ode to the Goldfinch
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Gattulli-Joseph-3-350x350.jpg)
you wont need much...just a little tiny taste
Joseph Gattulli
mixed media
Plainview, New York
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Stivison-Heather-1-350x350.jpg)
Scars and Stripes
Heather Stivison
acrylic and cotten thread on canvas
South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Levin-Stephen-350x350.jpg)
Spring Buds
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Backer-Emmax2-350x350.jpg)
Untitled
Emma Backer
mixed media - Polaroid emulsion lift, acrylic paint
Astoria, New York
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kaufman-Iris-350x350.jpg)
Self-portrait?
Iris Kaufman
giclee of oil painting, color pencil, masking tape, paper
Peabody, Massachusetts
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Broderick-Amy-3-350x350.jpg)
Table of Contents
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Babington-Carol-350x350.jpg)
Kamakura
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Stephenson-Lynn-350x350.jpg)
Intertwined
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bockheim-Anthony2-350x350.jpg)
Time
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Doering-Mary-350x350.jpg)
When Things Fall Apart
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Crossan-Linda-4-350x350.jpg)
Then The Sands Will Roll
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Massimino-Janet-1-350x350.jpg)
Untamed Enterprise
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Volker-Chris-350x350.jpg)
Boro Fragment
Chris Volker
oil & cold wax, rice paper on wood panel
Elk Grove, California
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mucha-Karns-Linda-350x350.jpg)
Say No More
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Enslin-Klaus-350x350.jpg)
Ferryman II
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ni-June-350x350.jpg)
Kintsugi #2
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mueller-j.-marc-350x350.jpg)
The Gloves are Off
![](https://art-fluent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Okamoto-Yasuko-350x350.jpg)