08/18/2026
Samantha Jones: Residual Worlds
Sept. 10 – Oct. 11, 2026
Transforming both levels of Amos Eno Gallery into an immersive installation of hand-painted silk and velvet, materials-based installation artist Samantha Jones invites visitors into spheres of life that may not know one another, yet are so deeply embedded that they cannot be severed.
Within the installation, two color-drenched worlds emerge. One evokes a multivalent atmosphere of molecular movement, while the other forms a textured, cave-like terrain that envelops visitors in its folds and fantasies. Haunting one another in palette, intensity, and mark, these become Residual Worlds: distinct yet inseparable, much like the worlds we inhabit every day. Moving through them, viewers become aware not only of the spaces themselves, but of their own place within an ecology of relationships that is constantly unfolding.
Jones asks what it means to become more attentive to unseen connections at a moment when questions of ecological interdependence, collective care, and shared responsibility have become increasingly urgent. The exhibition grows from her ongoing research into "wild care"—an ethic that understands life not as isolated individuals, but as entangled systems of mutual influence, vulnerability, and persistence.
For Jones, residue is not simply what remains, but an active material: the traces that continue to shape the world after their maker has departed. Art, too, is residue. It escapes the body of its maker and continues on its own trajectory, taking on a life beyond intention or design.
Rather than illustrating philosophical ideas, Jones gives them material form. Silk and velvet become living surfaces whose color, translucency, and texture shift as visitors move through them, creating an environment completed through encounter.
Residual Worlds invites us to consider the invisible systems that bind us to one another—and how we might care for them, and for one another, with greater attention.
