Where Art Meets Healing-Soft Work Art Exhibition at UW Health Hospital
Soft Work: In The Space Between an art exhibition at UW Health Hospital, transforming a clinical environment into a contemplative space for reflection, care, and connection through contemporary art.
Juried by Scott Terry, Founder and Curator of Mahogany Gallery, the exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose work explores softness not as fragility, but as intention, resistance, and quiet strength. Through subtle gestures, material sensitivity, and visual language, the selected works invite viewers to contemplate and engage with the emotional and psychological spaces that exist between certainty and uncertainty, tension and release, presence and pause, all elements that occur within a medical facility.
Set within a healthcare setting, Soft Work: In The Space Between offers a meaningful intersection between art and wellness. The exhibition acknowledges the hospital as more than a site of treatment, it is also a place of waiting, healing, vulnerability, and hope. The artworks serve as gentle companions to patients, visitors, and staff, offering moments of grounding and reflection amid the rhythms of care.
This juried exhibition reflects Mahogany Gallery’s ongoing commitment to presenting thoughtful, socially resonant art in spaces beyond traditional gallery walls. By situating contemporary artistic practice within everyday environments, the exhibition underscores the power of art to support well-being, foster empathy, and create moments of calm and connection.
Soft Work: In The Space Between opens to the public on February 13, 2026 at UW Health Hospital. Visitors are encouraged to experience the exhibition as part of their daily movement through the space—encountering art not as interruption, but as quiet presence.
Exhibiting Artists
Lyndy Bazile - Indiana
Kevin Brown - Wisconsin
Jessica Gutierrez - Wisconsin
Jerry Jordan - Wisconsin
Desere Mayo - Wisconsin
Elissa Nesheim - Minnesota
Dana Powell - Indiana
Lotus Heartly - Illinois
Mallory Shotwell - Michigan
Matthew Braunginn - Wisconsin
Megan Woodard Johnson - Wisconsin
Miles Fountain - Illinois
Olivia Burks - Illinois
Calin Bruett - Illinois
Samantha Severson - Illinois
Purchase Art from the Exhibition
All work is available for aquisition through Mahogany Gallery.
Browse the art exhibition on the Exhibitions page.
