Vanishing Point
Through January 10, 2026
Artists’ Reception will take place on Monday, December 29, from 5 to 7pm
OCHI is pleased to present Vanishing Point, a group exhibition featuring works by Dike Blair, Vija Celmins, Cooper Cox, Beaux Mendes, Bryan Morello, and Emma Webster.
Vanishing Point traces the moment when perception falters and the landscape turns inward. Horizons blur, perspectives invert, and the world seems to fold in on itself—not disappearing but reconfiguring into something at once alien and achingly familiar. The works gathered inhabit that in-between: places that shimmer between material and mirage, where light behaves like memory and form resists reality. Simulated and hand-wrought, intimate and cosmic, all converge on the moment when place slips into the imagination.
I woke from a dream of an impossible machine.
Whirring and spitting equations, it reads the temperature of sound, composing the music of knotted pines and gurgling brooks. It is outfitted with many lenses that sweep round in tiny orbit, calibrating focus, bending light-heat, carving intricate glass lines in sand. Whispering my desire through a tiny steel receiver, its innards spark frenzied movement, gears tilt into a whirling dance. A slippery smoke of spores floats from the machine, filling the air before me with an undulating image, a forest of a thousand silver needles. From within this mist appears a fleeting figure weaving its way through, its shadow bows and warps in the mirrored surface of the reflective field. Growing ever larger, the figure, almost-human, steps out from this fogged mirage, reaching out to touch.
The sun rises over the terminal horizon, day breaks and rippling waves of heat crawl across the long and sloping plane. I think of home, my cabin in the mountains, a structure no more than memory, the imprint of one’s face in snow, its form melting from mind. I remember so many things: campfires in the pale night, the day the orb appeared, all the animals I can now no longer name but whose strange calls echo in quiet moments. In this aching persistence of days, the only trace of myself lies in receding footsteps, winnowed by wind and smoothed by the cold lick of time.
Caption:
On the Horizon, 2025
by Emma Webster
oil on linen
72” x 96”
182.9 x 243.8 cm
2025
Image Courtesy of the Artist and OCHI. Photo by Marten Elder.
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