For our second exhibition of the 2026 season at Readymade, we have assembled a group of 43 artists:

participants in the 2026 DNA Residency and invited guests, focusing on various interpretations of The

Great Beyond. Posing questions more than answers, the group explores themes of mystery, finality, the

afterlife, and unknown frontiers. The contemporary artists, much like 19th-century explorers such as

Lewis and Clark, or Rasmussen, map out new territories artistically rather than geographically.

The viewer is given a roadmap—CliffsNotes or signposts, if you will—to these artists' pilgrimages in The

Great Beyond. Similar to Jules Verne's classic Journey to the Center of the Earth, or Jacques Cousteau's

excursions to the bottom of the sea in The Silent World, artists continue to discover uncharted territory

within their art and in their psyches. This exhibition addresses multiple themes through a variety of media:

death, the unknown, mystery, and speculation about the fate of the planet, animals, and the human race.

The show ranges from literal depictions of voyaging, including paintings by Sam Colt, Thomas A. D.

Watson, Andrew Fish, Kahn and Selesnick, James Fils-Aime, Peter Hutchinson, Nick Lawrence, and

Abraham Storer; to abstract visions of nothingness and the void by artists such as Olivia Baldwin, Noa

Hall, Kathline Carr, Whiting Tennis, Yasmeen Abdallah, Theresa Bloise, Robert Scott Whipkey, Susan

Jennings, Jen Shepard, Benjamin King, Martin Smick, Emily Wisniewski, Becky Yazdan, and Bert

Yarborough; to more personal, self-reflective works by James Horner, Natalya Kolchak, Alexander Nolan,

Emilia Olsen, Tony Bluestone, Katerina Lanfranco, Cheryl Schainfield, and Kristen Schiele; to narratives

of the new frontier by Adam Brent, Becky Brown, Aaron Brodeur, Daniel Ranalli, Sarah Dineen, Sam

Jablon, Douglas Degges, Ryan Kish, Kirstin Lamb, Katherine Bradford, Douglas Ritter, Michael Holden,

and Jim Peters.

We hope there will still be many lingering questions—as well as some possible answers—in store for

viewers of the exhibition. We also trust that visitors will experience as much surprise and fascination

during their own explorations of The Great Beyond as we had in curating this show.