Sickly Sweet 
Sasha Terway + Krissya Iraheta

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24.07.2026-22.08.2026

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Reception July 24th 2026  7 PM to 9 PM

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Sasha Terway 

Through drawing, I depict the relationship between predator and prey and question its reflection in the scope of my psyche. I am curious about our tendency to seek out conflict in places where it doesn’t exist. As seen in Yellowstone’s predator crisis, eliminating a predator allows what was previously considered prey to rise to a threatening position and reverse their previously conceived roles. I am curious about how we may exhibit this fluctuation as people, people who have suffered conflict inevitably continuing a cycle of conflict out of habit, or nature. Through psychoanalytical methods of investigating this theory, my work utilizes

animism and phenomenology to explore this conflict through the stage of dreamscapes.

 

Through contrasting rendering styles and processes, I define the nuances of balance between predator and prey through method, style, species, and power. I am exploring in recent subject matter the contrast between cute elements and meticulously mark made elements and how they may prompt the notion of power dynamics that transcend predator and prey roles.

 

Krissya Iraheta

My practice plays with themes of sexuality, trauma and the Latin American woman’s experience through Pop Surrealism. An allegorical and humorously juxtaposed look at generational, religious and physical trauma, I aim to blur the boundary between high and low art. By using surrealist strategies and cultural connotations, these works can be intricate and soft but also primal and visceral. Culminating in intimate moments where the viewer is confronted with childhood innocence and the carnage of the adult soul.

 

There is pleasure in experiencing guileless imagery paired with mature themes to create a cloying body of work that transcends shame and reality. There is an undeniable ridiculousness brought out when reveling in images of gore, sexual nature, childhood, melancholy and sarcasm within the context of Pop Surrealism. This celebration of the binaries is highlighted in my work as I toe the line between disturbing and endearing to create a grotesquely arousing experience