For Immediate Release
January 29, 2026

Suffolk County Community College Presents Human NATURED, a Group Exhibition Curated by Annemarie Waugh, on View at the Lyceum Gallery on the Eastern Campus Through March 13, 2026

LISA CORINNE DAVI, Legit Duplicity, 2023, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. For a hi-res image, visit: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nzhr4TfwPfDgd1Ft6

Suffolk County Community College presents Human NATURED, a group exhibition curated by Annemarie Waugh, on view at the Lyceum Gallery at Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus, through March 13, 2026. A gallery event reception will be held on Thursday, February 5, 2026, from 5:00–7:00 p.m. at The Lyceum Gallery in the Montaukett Library. Artists on view include Isak Berbic, Darlene Charneco, Andrea Cote, Lisa Corinne Davis, Tomory Dodge, Terrance Hayes, Howardena Pindell, and Agathe Snow.

Human NATURED brings together painting, photography, prints, sculpture, and poetry produced over the past two decades. The artists engage with the natural world, cultural memory, and personal experience through tactile, thoughtful processes. From Howardena Pindell’s meticulous abstractions built from hole-punched dots to Agathe Snow’s sculptures incorporating found materials, and from Terrance Hayes’s poetic portraits to Lisa Corinne Davis’s vibrant geometric paintings, the exhibition presents diverse approaches united by a commitment to meaningful expression and the human hand. Human NATURED invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and reconnect with the nature of artmaking itself.

Inspired by Ōsawa Agathe’s The Lantern of Lost Memories; Mariana Leky’s What You Can See from Here; Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library; Terrance Hayes’s How to Be Drawn; and Thom, Kai Cheng’s Falling Back in Love with Being Human.

The Lyceum Gallery’s mission is to serve as a vital teaching instrument and visual resource that enriches campus cultural life as well as that of the surrounding community. This is accomplished through exhibitions related to the visual arts that represent a wide range of media, cultures, and time periods. The Lyceum Gallery is located in the Montaukett Learning Center on the Eastern Campus of Suffolk County Community College,121 Speonk-Riverhead Road, Riverhead, NY 11901.

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 8 AM–8 PM
Admission: Free

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Isak Berbic is a visual artist living and working in New York. His research is concerned with social histories, translation, the limits of representation, and the circulation of images. His recent projects unearth contested histories, investigating forms of representation within intersecting ecologies, geographies, economies, archaeologies, exchange, and transformation. He uses fiction and documents, found and primary material, the image and the literary, in the construction of his artworks, which take on interdisciplinary forms, including photography-text-object installations, films and videos, drawings and objects, actions, cooking, speeches, texts, and publications.

Darlene Charneco is an East End–based Latinx artist who creates mixed-media mappings to explore and navigate the layered spaces we live in, both in the real and virtual world. She examines human settlements, forms of interaction, and evolution through a biological lens and as part of a larger organism. Developing her own tactile language—such as painstakingly hammering nails into wooden panels—the artist builds large-scale, three-dimensional, patterned Touchmaps for viewers to experience a world that continually shifts and changes through our expanded communication networks.

Andrea Cote is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, printmaking, and performance. Her practice encompasses studio-based work, mixed-media installations, and public projects that involve community participation. Based in Hampton Bays, NY, she has exhibited her work in North and South America at venues including Islip Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, The Print Center, The Moore Gallery, and PanAmerican Art Projects. Her performances have been featured at The Watermill Center, The Neuberger Museum, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Peekskill Project, Chashama, The Dumbo Arts Festival, and Photo Buenos Aires.
In 2012, a 13-year survey, Body of Evidence, was presented at Dowling College. She is the recipient of several grants, including NYSCA Creative Individuals Grants in 2014 and 2018 and a SIP Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She received a NYSCA Artist Support Grant with the Patchogue Arts Council for a community project in 2023. Residencies include The Church Sag Harbor, the Uncommon Residency at Sound View in Greenport, NY, and the Miami Paper & Print Museum.

Lisa Corinne Davis makes geometric abstract paintings alive with joyous color. Her canvases layer pattern and hue to create dynamic visual experiences that pulse with energy and invite extended contemplation. Since 1993, Davis has held teaching positions at some of the top art schools in the United States; she is currently Professor of Art at Hunter College. Davis is a member of the National Academy of Design, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts, and a 2024 fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts. Additionally, in 2024, Davis was commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design Program to create several permanent mosaic murals for the 68th Street–Hunter College subway station, a site of particular resonance for Davis, having taught at Hunter College for over two decades.

Tomory Dodge received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2004 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. While at RISD, he completed their European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, in 1997. In 2022, Dodge completed a residency at the Corporation of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. Dodge has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; and ACME., Los Angeles, CA.

Terrance Hayes is a National Book Award–winning poet and MacArthur Fellow who also paints. Trained in painting before turning to poetry, Hayes continues to create visual art that explores themes of masculinity, identity, and perception. His paintings appear on the covers of his poetry books, merging his two creative practices. Hayes’s most recent publications include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) and To Float in the Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018). To Float in the Space Between won the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin won the Hurston/Wright 2019 Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry, the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A collection of poems, So to Speak, and a collection of essays, Watch Your Language, were published by Penguin in 2023. Hayes is a Silver Professor of English at New York University.

Howardena Pindell was born in Philadelphia in 1943 and studied painting at Boston University and Yale University. After graduating, she accepted a job at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked from 1967–1979, first as Exhibition Assistant, then as Assistant Curator in the Department of National and International Traveling Exhibitions, and finally as an Associate Curator and Acting Director in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. The role made her the museum’s first African American curator. In 1979, Pindell began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. In 2019, the university honored her as a Distinguished Professor. Her work explores color, texture, and the language of abstraction through a meticulous process involving hole punches, layered dots, and intuitive arrangements of form.

Agathe Snow (b. 1976, Corsica, France) is a New York–based artist who has shown nationally at New Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY. Snow has also achieved international recognition, exhibiting at prestigious institutions such as Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; and Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom. Agathe Snow’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, and in The Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO.

About Suffolk County Community College

Suffolk County Community College is the largest, most comprehensive community college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, enrolling more than 26,000 students in over 100 degree and certificate programs. With approximately 145,000 alumni, Suffolk County Community College is dedicated to meeting the demands of regional employers. The college has built an extensive track record of successfully training and educating its students through pathways from high school to college and into careers.