Under Control: Navigating Intention and Uncertainty
Starts: Sunday June 7, 2026
Meet The Artists: Sunday June 7, 2026 between 1 - 4pm
Where: Atelier Ironwood, 1425 Lakeshore Rd. NOTL (2nd fl.)
Featuring Artists: Alex Chorny, Brad Eyre, Jadyn Deming, Ana Norton
Ends: Glass Room: Sunday, June 21 Terrace: Sunday July 5
Under Control reflects on the human desire to manage outcomes while acknowledging the inherent limits of control. The exhibition considers how we navigate a world that resists perfection; where structure meets disruption, and intention is continually shaped by forces beyond our command. In this space, control is not presented as absolute, but as something negotiated: a shifting balance between discipline and surrender. Under Control asks us to reconsider our relationship with uncertainty, suggesting that within unpredictability lies not failure, but possibility. By embracing imperfection, whether in art, nature, or daily life, we open ourselves to deeper understanding, resilience, and a more nuanced appreciation of process.
Expanding on this premise, the exhibition brings together four artists whose practices engage with control as both method and concept. Each artist operates within systems: scientific, material, gestural, or technological, where outcomes are guided but never fully determined. Their works reveal that precision and unpredictability are not opposing forces, but interdependent conditions that shape the act of creation. Across disciplines and media, these artists explore how boundaries can be tested, redefined, and, at times, relinquished altogether.
From the calculated influence of natural forces to the transformation of intuitive gestures into structured compositions, from the translation of digital identities into physical form to the slow, irreversible mark-making of pyrography, Under Control unfolds as a meditation on process. It highlights the importance of allowing a margin of error; of recognizing that deviation, disruption, and even imperfection are not flaws to be corrected, but essential elements of discovery. In doing so, the exhibition mirrors the broader human experience: learning when to assert control, when to let go, and how to find meaning in the space between.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Alex Chorny
Alex Chorny explores the intersection of science, philosophy, and visual expression, using natural forces such as magnetism and gravity as both medium and subject. His work demonstrates that even within carefully constructed frameworks, external forces introduce variability, creating a dynamic tension between precision and emergence.
Brad Eyre
Brad Eyre’s abstract paintings embody a negotiation between instinct and structure. Beginning with gestural, intuitive applications of paint, his process embraces spontaneity before reasserting control through the careful imposition of geometric order.
Ana Norton
Ana Norton’s sculptural practice investigates identity as a fluid and evolving construct, shaped through both digital and physical processes. By translating virtual models into cast forms, her work highlights the instability of control over self-representation. Transformation becomes central to her practice, where each iteration accepts change, uncertainty, and the impossibility of a fixed or perfect form.
Jadyn Deming
Jadyn Deming’s pyrography practice is rooted in patience, precision, and attentiveness to material. While their imagery captures the delicate intricacies of the natural world, the act of burning into wood introduces an element of irreversibility that resists total control. Their work embraces this tension, revealing how careful intention and material response coexist to produce quietly powerful, imperfect beauty.
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