How it Feels
Joshua Anstrand, Katherine Blommel, Roman Buck, Wade Joubert, Ella Leidy, Nina Lund, Mikayla Mossberg, Corrie Steckelberg, Taylor Wald, and J Youngwood
July 17th - 29th, 2025
Schmidt Landmark Gallery St. Paul, MN
How it Feels showcases carefully selected artworks that serve as emotional vignettes that exist within an ever changing global environment. The collection offers its audience the space to engage intentionally with visual media. In a time where the dominant content being pushed in public spaces is AI generated, algorithmically beneficial, or intentionally careless media, it is both more important and difficult than ever for individuals to engage with care based, considerate ideas. How it Feels aims to provide a space for the individual to investigate what intimacy and closeness means in the digital age, and how close can one truly get to one another when divided by digital media. How sincere can a moment be when being fed by a machine to thousands of unaware observers? The exhibition hopes to rebuild the bridge to purposeful connection, allowing viewers to connect with the works and one another uninterrupted by virtual barriers.
Sun Gleam Through My Window (soundtrack from the exhibition)
The score for this show is a 24 minute looping ambient work by J. snowbowl and Lewis Williams titled Sun Gleam Through My Window. This piece consists of solely piano and electric bass guitar, processed through delay hardware designed and soldered by Lewis Williams. This artwork was recorded and produced by J. snowbowl. The work highlights the natural tones present throughout the works within How it Feels and was created during the curatorial process. J. snowbowl also collaborated with Camden Stevens on the original score for STARGAZER in July of 2024.
Photos courtesy of Matthew Sullivan 2025