The Sharing Group
Saba Maheen, Graham Krenz, Jules Garder, Ana Rucker, Quinn Isaacs, Rachel Mulvihill, Yemisi Adeyemo, Ian Byers-Gamber, Shiva Addanki, Dan Lucal, Ariana Martinez, Emily Drew Miller, Nate Millstein, Jake Paron, Francisco echo Eraso, and Cheon Pyo Lee
We are:
Saba Maheen
Graham Krenz
Jules Garder
Ana Rucker
Nate Millstein
Shiva Addanki
Dan Lucal
Ariana Martinez
Emily Drew Miller
Emma Berry
Quinn Isaacs
Rachel Mulvihill
Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo
Ian Byers-Gamber
Pachi Muruchu
Jake Paron
Francisco echo Eraso
Harley Hollenstein
Cheon Pyo Lee
As a group, we move with the adaptability of water—shifting, pooling, responding to the shapes of location and availability. Our work is situated in camaraderie, not competition; in responsiveness, not rigidity. We gather and disperse across nontraditional sites— basements, church cafeterias, under bridges—forming temporary constellations of shared presence and performance. What connects these experiments is not medium or discipline, but a shared ethos of play, trust, and immediacy. We find where we can enter in, and go.
Our exhibitions have emerged quickly, collaboratively, all located outside of the institution within which we met. Without the pressure of permanence or saleability, our projects unfold through improvisation and mutual support. We all exist as teachers, precarious workers, comrades—organizing shows as a way of staying in motion, in contact. We bring our work to spaces that don’t usually hold such things, transforming these locations into stages for acts of connection and transformation.
The first venture out was to an unused handball court in Piscataway in February, where we enacted Holding Court—a 35-minute flash exhibition. Sculptures and performances bounced between the concrete, bitter cold and winter light, calling and responding to the site and each other. The harsh wind pushed for quick choices, shaping our shared gestures. Subterra congealed in the artist Nate Millstein’s Highland Park basement, debris cleared and space opened for our meeting. If a basement acts like a subconscious, the desire to share shook out the clutter. Rise took place at the Highland Park Reformed Church, a connection made through the artist Francisco echo Eraso. Our welcome into the room served as a reminder of the radical flexibility of such spaces (the auditorium we showed our work in is polyfunctional - existing as a meeting hall, a free-cost cafe and leftist political meeting space).
The particulars of each location - the walls, the pavement, even the air- all become activated participants in our creations. The material flows into the crevices that were there long before we started to think about them. Exhibition-making itself can be a medium.
In April, we gathered again—this time under a bridge. Inspired by artist Quinn Isaacs’ discovery of the uncanny acoustics beneath New Jersey’s Route 18. Trucks and cars passing overhead turned the steel into a reverberating chamber cut through with a walking path and stream. Our works were suspended from the rebar and sprinkled on drainage rocks beneath the infrastructural cathedral. Here, the overhead highway (often symbolic of division and violence) was temporarily recast as a vignette of our making.
Our shared work is not fixed. It's alive, contingent, open to interruption. Waxing and waning with our shared proclivities, desire and abilities from show to show. The center holds throughout. Water pools, floods, irrigates - It resists containment. Our exhibitions are gestures of togetherness, of experimentation, of a shared refusal to wait for permission.
This is a field report, mid-stream.
What do we need in order to make (and in order to make it appear in the world)?
A field, a plane, a stairwell, a basement, a church, a bridge, a barn .
A river, an animal, a text, a stone, a flash of light, paper skin, metal bones, the rumble of traffic, the wind, the interaction of color, a fire, an oil barrel, two pill bottles filled with bullet casings, a hair, a line, a reflection, a replica, a refusal, a resonance, a record.
Taking what you can get. Getting what you put in. Showing the seams. Fraying the edges. Flying under the radar. Hopping the fence and pulling the next person up behind you.
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