OHGE Ltd. is pleased to announce a group show featuring 16 artists from Washington and Pennsylvania exhibiting works in a variety of mediums and experimental formats alongside site-specific installations, sound works and performances. Although the individual artists' works address broad topics, unifying themes of temporary permanent, masculine/feminine, and interior exterior emerge in the context of the show. Each artist fits into at least one dialect and the intersection allows for a flow and exchange between pieces. “You’re So Cool” as an expression of admiration for these inquiries extends not only from curator to artist, but also between artists and works.  This show does not pretend to ask many questions, rather makes the simple observation: You’re So Cool.

Within the discourse of temporary permanent, Julie Alpert and Erin Shafkind will be debuting a new and ongoing performance,“The BeaconHill Pre-Ruins Project,” a commentary on material usage carried out by two industrial artist crusaders working with post consumer materials. Sound artists Wyndel Hunt and Garek Druss will be collaborating on a sound installation that addresses the intimacy and control the listener maintains in audio based interactions; an immersive audio piece wherein two sound identities overlap to become one. Ali Williams will continue to engage non-traditional spaces with string in “Let’s Connect,” one work that exists in two separate locations: Philadelphia and Seattle.

In an opening night performance, authors Catherine Wilcox and Ian Young will take on different personas and manipulate each other’s short stories via a pair of overhead projectors. Two local artists inspired by mythology, Sharon Arnold and Gala Bent, will be showing new works: a cut paper scroll and drawings of otherworldly figures, respectively. Also featured will be Allison Manch’s new series of embroidered portraits based on childhood memories and photographs.

Confronting topics of interior exterior while presenting five different takes on architecture, structure and interior spaces are Eric Elliot, Tom Hall, Christopher Hoff, James Johnson and Whiting Tennis. Elliot and Hall will be showing pen and ink drawings featuring local cityscapes. Plein-air painter Hoff continues to peel back extraneous layers of urban landscape with new works from the “Floating Worlds” series. Tennis will create a wunderkammer in cardboard relief and Johnson addresses surveillance, voyeurism, and domestic space with the neon and cardboard work “Stop Following Me”.

Lastly, the show will include selection of recent ambrotype photographs by Daniel Carrillo, including portraits of several of the artists participating in “You’re So Cool”.