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Anna Valdez Alaska Landscape Painting in Reflection with Moose Antler, 2025 Oil on canvas 47 x 47 in 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and OCHI. Photo by Deen Babakhyi.
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Ian Stanton Clouds (10), 2021 Oil on canvas 72 x 54 in 182.9 x 137.2 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and OCHI. Photo by Deen Babakhyi.
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Emily Marchand ode to the morning, 2024 Stoneware, glaze, underglaze 19.5 x 18.75 x 18.75 in 49.5 x 47.6 x 47.6 cm
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Brittany Fanning Venus in Spring, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 72 in 152.4 x 182.9 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and OCHI. Photo by Deen Babakhyi.
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Andy Mister At This Moment, 2025 Pastel and acrylic on linen on panel 20 x 16 in 50.8 x 40.6 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and OCHI. Photo by Deen Babakhyi.
Exhibition
Second Nature
13 Jun 2025 – 1 Aug 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 119 Lewis St
- Ketchum
Idaho - 83340
- United States
Across media, the works in Second Nature reveal the deep entanglement of memory, daily life, and the natural world. Whether tied to home, studio, ocean, or mountain, the places we carry within us contain abundant narratives.
About
OCHI is pleased to present Second Nature, a group exhibition featuring works by Brittany Fanning, Matthew F Fisher, Elijah Ford, Emily Marchand, Andy Mister, Maggie Shafran, Polly Shindler, Sam Shoemaker, Ian Stanton, and Anna Valdez. The exhibition will be on view at OCHI, located at 119 Lewis Street in Ketchum, Idaho from June 13 through August 1.
Second Nature gathers a group of artists whose works reveal the deep entanglement of memory, daily life, and the natural world. Across paintings, sculptures, and ceramics, the exhibition explores the artists’ instinctual need to create with place as their muse. Andy Mister’s pastel and acrylic snapshots of domestic life focus on everyday flowers in a jar on a windowsill. Meanwhile, interior and exterior worlds collapse into one another in the paintings of Brittany Fanning, Polly Shindler, and Anna Valdez. Elijah Ford and Ian Stanton’s clouds fleetingly shape shift, folding together reflection and wonder, while Matthew F Fisher and Maggie Shafran’s paintings consider shifting perspectives. Emily Marchand’s large companion vessels celebrate the often-overlooked labor of pollinators, positioning her lush, hand-painted ceramics as elegies to a fragile ecological balance, and Sam Shoemaker’s mushroom sculptures introduce the mythology of adaptation and survival.
Through considered observation and surreal improvisation, the artists of Second Nature instinctually embed the natural world into their works–not as a static backdrop but a living, breathing presence within memory, routine, and imagination. Whether tied to home, studio, ocean, or mountain, the places we carry within us contain abundant narratives.
