The group show, which opened October 3, explores how imagination can bridge the distance between artist and viewer.

On view through November 14, “Felt-Occurrence” at the Tomayko Foundation brings together five artists whose works investigate the body as a site of memory, emotion, and imagination. Juried by CMU alum davine byon, the exhibition takes its title and conceptual grounding from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, which proposes that imagination can serve as a vessel for understanding the realities of others.

Professor Ranee Henderson presents four paintings in the exhibition that draw viewers into intimate memories and personal symbologies, continuing her ongoing investigation of the peanut shell as both material and iconography. Henderson shows alongside recent alum Clarine Lee, who graduated in 2025 with a BFA and a minor in Photography and Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and whose work merging photography, book forms, and textiles won the exhibition’s Artist Award. The exhibition also features former faculty member Ling-lin Ku, Justin Emmanuel Dumas, and Joshua Challen Ice.