Content Contact

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Cabin Contemporary is pleased to present Content Contact, an exhibition of international artists whose works span multiple disciplines including video, painting and sculpture. 

An opening reception will be held on 04/06/25 from 2pm-8pm. Light refreshments will be available. BYOB is encouraged.

“What is love? The dream's content.” 

 Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

Content Contact plays the same word game as Kierkegaard and proposes an unsettled experience between two questions: Are we content with the content? Or is the content contentious? The artists inhabiting the Cabin offer glimpses of knowledge toward possible answers. Lee Gingold’s animated poem mines new mountains of language to offer a foothold for anyone falling from the light of love. The girls in Marissa Graziano’s paintings seem pleased to be having fun unaware that innocence is fleeting. JillOdegaard’s systematic yet irregular handmade paper and wire pieces explore the dialogue between edges and interiors and remind of the fragility of our psychic and physical, individual and social structures. MariaStabio’s electric paintings conjure mythologies long spun and expected to order chaos. No doubt the works of Gingold, Graziano, Odegaard and Stabio are light and beautiful but in conversation might intimate a delicate darkness. Order from Chaos/Chaos in Order/Chaos from Order/Order in Chaos is an ancient dialectic that may provide a framework for unpacking the anxiety contained in beautiful content. In the process, Content Contact suggests an uncanny warmth with a drafty hole in the conceptual fabric where the angst gets in. 

Lee Gingold is a filmmaker and animator based in Melbourne, Australia. He attended university at RMIT in Melbourne, where he studied Electronic Design and Interactive Media. He has directed several major projects including an officially sanctioned music video for The Beatles cover of the Chuck Berry song, “Words of Love” and a Sesame Street short called “What If”. In addition, he produces the “live music project,” a series of films that aim to capture the energy of live performance by musicians in New Zealand and New York whilst incorporating some of the visual experimentation usually associated with music videos. Also, he has created multiple documentary films focused on individual lives. First and foremost, Lee Gingold is a storyteller and the various technical skills he’s honed are the tools for telling said stories.

Marissa Graziano is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Atlanta, GA. She received her BFA from Georgia State University in 2015, and her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2018. She creates paintings, videos, and installations that lure and leer at her audience to provoke paranoia. Her work has been shown at Theodore (NYC), Auxier Kline (NYC), Pio Pico (LA), Clifford Gallery at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY), THE END Project Space (Atlanta, GA), and Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA); among others. In 2019, she co-founded Greene House Gallery with her partner, Samuel Guy, out of their home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. They expanded the project in 2023 to include GH mag, an independent online publication featuring artist-written reviews, interviews, and essays. Graziano is a curator at Below Grand in New York.

Jill Odegaard is an artist who engages the public through her work as she involves communities to participate in dialogue and making of artwork.  As Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Cedar Crest College she holds a BFA from Minnesota State University - Moorhead MN and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN.  Her studio practice explores the tactile nature of design through the use of textiles, handmade paper and other mixed media.

Maria Stabio (b. 1985 San Francisco, CA) is a Filipino-American painter. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from Boston University (2007) and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2012). Her work has recently been shown at Transmitter (NY), Kristen Lorello (NY), Van Doren Waxter (NY), Princeton University (NJ), Fjord (PA), and Essex Flowers (NY) to name a few. She has been awarded artist residencies at Wassaic Project (NY), ChaNorth (NY), the Hinge Arts Program (MN), The Rensing Center (SC), and Vermont Studio Center (VT). In 2023 she developed a former furniture factory in Tamaqua, PA into a five-room boutique hotel called Bischoff Inn. In 2024, she launched the Micro-Residency at Bischoff Inn, a 1 - 2 week residency program for visual artists, writers and scholars. In 2012, she was a recipient of the Artist in Residence Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatarwhere she served as artist in residence and adjunct faculty for one academic year. She is represented by Kristen Lorello in New York.

Future Projects:

 6/1/25 - 7/13/25

BROTHER JT

7/20/25 - 9/7/25

MORGAN HOBBS

9/14/25 - 10/26/25

JASON ALEXANDER BYERS

 Cabin Contemporary encourages dialogue about contemporary art in the Appalachian Mountains of rural east central Pennsylvania. The project space focuses on installation, new media, painting and outsider art. Multidisciplinary artist and educator, Lance Rautzhan established Cabin Contemporary in June 2022. 

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