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BOG BODIES
Emily Rice, Shori Sims, Sarah West
October 8 – 24, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 5 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 24, 3 pm
Emily Rice is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Southern US. Growing up and living in the South, its landscapes and histories consistently enter their practice with motifs and materiality. Through a queer lens, Rice explores material agency, sustainable relationships, hybridized language, and hopeful dreaming. Rice earned their MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, their BFA in Art and Spanish from Birmingham-Southern College, and studied Advanced Liberal Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. Rice has most recently shown work at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (2026), St. Andrews Center (2025), Laredo College (2025), Texas A&M International University (2025), the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture (2023), and received a Fulbright Creative Research Scholarship to learn more about their Honduran heritage (2023-2024). Rice currently lives and works in Chattanooga, TN.
Shori Sims is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. Their work in performance, video, and installation engage with the Self as the residue of a computer which sifts through the raw data our bodies collect in the act of living. Driven by a desire for understanding and the translation of personal experience, Sims’ videos and multimedia installations utilize objects as symbolic vessels that support storytelling, unlocking unique mental associations when placed in relationship to one another and the moving image. Sims received their BFA from Carnegie Mellon University ‘22 and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Sculpture in 2024. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions of Sims’ work have taken place both nationally and internationally, including at Warbling Gallery (London), RUN Gallery (Toronto), and more recently at the University of Northern Michigan and NADA LES in the United States.
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 explore the metaphysical through gestural marks that amble across compositions, collapsing the incidental and the cosmic. West hails from Columbus, Georgia and studied art at Wake Forest University (BA) and the 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.
Image: Sarah West, Wishing Well, 2026, oil on linen, 40x30