Suzanne Sbarge: Anomalies

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 8, 2026, 5 PM to 7 PM

Location: Gallery Hozho at Hotel Chaco

Combining painting, collage, and cyanotypes, Suzanne Sbarge’s series Anomalies explores human-animal hybridity to consider wider issues of time, gender, and identity within an ecological context. In a scientific context, an anomaly describes a deviation from what is considered normal — an error or an entirely new phenomenon. Sbarge’s anomalies are fluid in terms of species and gender, living in a dream-like realm where anything is possible.

Created during a residency at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Utah, the artist was inspired by the flora, fauna, and ecosystem of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, which has been impacted by climate change. Sbarge explores how the environmental crisis highlights the relationship between animals and the earth, with the hybrid bodies representing change through transformation.