Interwoven Perceptions
nterwoven Perceptions explores practices shaped through accumulation, interconnection, and the articulation of space, foregrounding pattern, structure, and haptic attention. Through openwork, interlacing systems, and meticulous mark-making, these approaches invite the eye to register detail as a mode of perception rather than ornament.
Opening Reception Saturday, April 18th 4-6pm
Participatory Performance @ 4:30pm
Show run: April 18th - May 29th, 2026
Meet the artists, discuss the work, and enjoy complimentary refreshments.
Interwoven Perceptions explores practices built through accumulation, interconnection, and the articulation of space, foregrounding pattern, structure, and haptic attention. Through openwork, interlacing systems, and meticulous mark-making, these approaches train the eye to register detail as a mode of perception rather than ornament.
Across these works, negative space, the cadence of warp and weft, and sustained acts of precision activate detail as a generative force, one that produces form, rhythm, and meaning.
By bringing these disciplines into dialogue, the exhibition positions detail as structural and epistemic: a site where labour, intuition, and inherited techniques converge. Interwoven Perceptions proposes intricacy not as embellishment, but as a connective system, an aesthetic and material logic that binds the visible and invisible.
About the Curators
Johanna Aenderl, Dalit Gurevich, and Sally Boon Matthews are the curating team for Interwoven Perceptions.
Sally Boon Matthews is a UK visual artist and educator based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited and published in the US and internationally in the UK, US, South Korea, France, and Latin America, engaging interdisciplinary approaches to image-making and material practice.
Dalit Gurevich is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working across painting and textiles, combining acrylic, embroidery, weaving, knitting, found materials, and video. Born in Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, Israel, she studied at Haifa University and Beit Berl. Since 2001, she has exhibited widely in New York and is a Chashama resident artist.
Johanna Aenderl Ryan is a Brooklyn-based artist. She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2020. She has received support from Penland School of Craft and Brooklyn Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited nationally.
About the Artists
Johanna Aenderl Ryan, Emily McDonald, Jennie Booth, Melanie Brewster, Avani Patel, Xuan Liu, Jennifer Formica, Maria Motyleva, Nadja Karpinskaya, Jenn Cacciola, Ji Yong Kim, Jacqueline Herranz Brooks, Juliette Vaissière, Alison Hagger, Dalit Gurevich, Sally Boon Matthews, Patricia Daher, Lu Gao, talk midway, Diana Smykova, Vandana Jain, Kostas Kiritsis, Wendy Cohen, Layla Nk, and Julieta Ruiz Argañaraz.
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Linda Colletta
Founder, The Stairwell Space
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GETTING THERE
The Stairwell Space is located in the entrance foyer of the American Fabrics Artist Studios building at
1069 Connecticut Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06607. Onsite parking is available.
ACCESSIBILITY
The front entrance to The Stairwell Space has limited accessibility. The front entrance has four large steps and a standard door opening. The building’s back entrance, accessible through the parking lot to the West of the building, is wheel-chair accessible to an elevator. Taking the elevator to the second floor will allow access to the gallery’s second level. If visitors attending these events need assistance, they can text Linda Colletta at 646-456-3622 prior to their arrival and share their ETA and any assistance needs.
ABOUT US…
The Stairwell Space is an artist-led, mission driven alternative art space in Bridgeport, CT situated in the historic American Fabrics Arts Building. Inhabiting the building’s original entrance, a grand marble foyer that features a two-story spiral staircase, we aim to contextualize and champion the work of local, regional, and national artists, cultivating meaningful conversations about art and culture.
We seek to build an ethos for innovation and advancement of the visual arts by providing an alternative gallery space to foster and facilitate artists to elevate their work, provoke dialog, and contribute to the greater conversation of the Arts.
Our mission is to advance the visual arts, elevate under-represented artists, and foster community engagement through innovative exhibitions and educational programming. to unite and expand the visual arts community in Connecticut through cultivating new opportunities, perspectives, curators and collectors from New York City and other renowned art hubs around the country. We seek to galvanize Bridgeport as an incubator for forward thinking artists and patrons of the arts. We mount exhibitions that prioritize under-represented, marginalized artists emerging artists regardless of age, education or gender, that are actively engaged in pushing the boundaries of their practices.
Through public events and educational outreach,
The Stairwell Space also plans to engage with local residents and create art outreach programs within the Bridgeport Public School System. These programs will provide content and funding for local visual arts after-school and summer programs.
The Stairwell Space is located at 1069 Connecticut Ave. Bridgeport, CT 06607, through the main entrance on CT Avenue. TSS is 90 minutes from Grand Central Station, NYC on Metro North's New Haven line and a 5 minute drive/Uber from the station. If driving, TSS is off Exit 30 on I95, and the Bridgeport/Port Jefferson Ferry port is a 5 minute drive to the gallery.
