"Deep Fried Chianti" reflects on what it means to return somewhere familiar and find it foreign. After 15 years living in Indianapolis, Marco Querin has come back to Italy and finds himself caught between two worlds, longing equally for what surrounds him and what he left behind. He describes his current state as one of "relaxed cultural confusion," a native land culture shock softened, as he puts it, by food. For Querin, food has always been the anchor of identity, and his studio has always been the kitchen.

Working with tightly stretched threads and carefully constructed fiber systems, Querin transforms textile materials into compositions that exist between painting, sculpture, and architecture. The works in this exhibition are intentionally wide in range of execution, meant to introduce himself to a new audience as fully and honestly as possible. What visitors encounter on these walls is the work of someone navigating incoherence with precision, an artist sipping Chianti in Tuscany while missing the people who consider fried butter a legitimate food option.

Finding himself in a life of constant change and adaptation, Querin is drawn to all that can be controlled. This impulse is manifest in the fragility, tension, elasticity, and equilibrium of his fiber-based work, compositions with a clear beginning and a clear end, built by hand with exacting care.

Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on view through May 30.