SPACE TIME
Misty Bennett, Rebecca Tully Fulmer, Sarah West
January 8 – 24, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8, 5 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 24, 3 pm
Ground Floor Contemporary is thrilled to present Space Time, an exhibition of new works by Misty Bennett, Rebecca Tully Fulmer, and Sarah West
Misty Bennett is a painter and educator whose abstract paintings use playful color choices and thick, impasto paint, contrasted with delicate line work and ethereal spray paint. These images serve as metaphor for our emotional states of being, while the materials of the painting itself ground the viewer in its physical, sensory presence. Bennett teaches at the University of Montevallo and serves as Chair of the Department of Art. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia. Her work has been exhibited across the southeast, most recently in the Alabama State Council for the Arts Gallery in Montgomery, the Red Clay Survey at the Huntsville Museum of Art, and the Tennessee Valley Art Museum.
Rebecca Tully Fulmer is a visual artist based in Birmingham, Alabama, whose interdisciplinary practice fuses lens-based media, collage, and fiber processes. Her studio work primarily focuses on how an image functions when it departs from the specific and becomes merely a material for exploration and expression. Inviting the viewer to sit inside each piece through transparent and reflective media, the experience creates a dialectical process with the eye as the shift and shimmer of light becomes a collaborator in the work. Tully Fulmer graduated with an MFA from Lesley University Art + Design in Boston, Massachusetts, and a BA in Interior Design from Auburn University's School of Architecture. Light in Tandem, her recent solo exhibition, was held at the Gadsden Museum of Art in Gadsden, Alabama.
Sarah West is a painter whose work explores moments in nature, filtered through abstract expressions. Personal compositions that touch on psychological connections with plants and sky are enhanced through color choices, composition, and mark-making. West’s paintings invoke explorations of the metaphysical through gestural marks that amble through a composition collapsing the incidental and the cosmic. West hails from Columbus, Georgia and studied art at Wake Forest University (BA) and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Clemson University in 2012 with a focus on painting. West is based in Birmingham, Alabama where she maintains a studio practice alongside raising three daughters with her husband.
Artwork: Misty Bennett