Help Me Help Me

Curated by Ksam Rekam & Zak Lane

Participating artists: Zak Lane, Winslow St. Pierre, Thomas Johnson, Sarah Nieman, Ksam Rekam, Craig Tillman, Amy LaBossière

EXHIBIT DATES: August 8–29, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, August 8, 6–9 pm

VIEWING HOURS: August 9, 10, 12–5 pm (More to be announced soon)

The phrase “Help Me Help Me” was a realization that our friendships and relationships have helped shape us into who we are in this moment. Over countless experiences, vulnerable conversations, loving gestures, and through sharing our ideas or creating art together, the idea that we’ve helped each other help ourselves.

Help Me Help Me is a co-curated exhibition showcasing installations from a group of artists and friends. These installations offer a unique view of each individual’s workspace, whether literal or metaphorical. A room full of artists who are all vastly different in their expressions, yet somehow they’ve all come together organically through the chaos of life to meet each other, share vulnerabilities, become closely tethered to one another, and reveal things none of them would have without one another.

This show features a series of installations that depict each artist’s workspace, mental space, paracosm, or expression of their lived experience in pursuit of their artwork. It’s a genuine attempt to portray the unglamorous, messy, and otherwise everyday spaces that we create in, live in, isolate ourselves in, and sometimes find our deepest friendships in.

The point being that an artist is more than their work. The history of their lives, specifically the trauma they endure and the grief that they carry, gives context to a real human being, struggling to survive and connect with the world.

In sharing those spaces, we reveal ourselves underneath the art: the raw portrayal of our lives, the loneliness of that burden, and through the connectivity that we’ve found in bearing that weight together.

We want to show how meaningful the bridges between these worlds have been, in keeping each other afloat and alive. Each world flows into the next, islands tethered between the seas. We are broken open by the waves, and are fundamentally changed forever.

This exhibition was conceptualized from the help we’ve received from those close to us in our lives and the help we gave to one another. And we only want to pay that help forward by involving The Health Collective and their mission to help those around them as well. They’ll be humbly accepting donations during the opening reception as well as the duration of our exhibit.