The Artist Room presents Nature Morte, a group exhibition curated by Pieter-Jan De Paepe examining the history of still life and its place within contemporary society. The exhibition features Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Owen Westberg, Max Xeno Karnig, Peter Davies, Henry Curchod, Kenneth Winterschladen, Sara Knowland, David Flaugher, Andrew Cranston and Alice Frey. Though each work varies greatly in its technique and approach, each artist is unified through an intimate, individual study of their own everyday reality.

“Still-life, I have written elsewhere, consists of objects that, whether artificial or natural, are subordinate to man as elements of use, manipulation and enjoyment; these objects are smaller than ourselves, within arm's reach, and owe their presence and place to a human action, a purpose. They convey man's sense of his power over things in making or utilizing them; they are instruments as well as products of his skills, his thoughts and appetites. While favored by an art that celebrates the visual as such, they appeal to all the senses and especially to touch and taste. They are the themes par excellence of an empirical standpoint wherein our knowledge of proximate objects, and especially of the instrumental, is the model or ground of all knowledge. It is in this sense that the American philosopher, George H. Mead, has said: "The reality of what we see is what we can handle."

C. Oliver O’Donnell. Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind. Penn State University Press, 2019, p. 116.