Artist-in-the-House Opening Reception: "Worn / Memories"

“My art has always helped me uncover faded artifacts—objects left over from a time that lives only in equally faded memory,” Jakobsberg explains, recalling an apartment full of her father’s New York Garment District fabric and clothing samples. Their particular but unrepeatable array of colors and textures, hinting at both community and family heritage, later inspired her to make prints not only on paper but also on cloth, wood, plastic, or metal—any material to which ink can be applied. “Memories of touching textures and shifting fabrics unencumbered by form

whisper to me,” she says, “of a past obscured by time, but not forgotten.”

For Quinn, whose painting tends to abstraction, memories become art through her openness to exploration. “I’m inspired by the places I’ve visited and the colors and forms, light and dark, I see there,” she says. “I start by playing with paint on the surface until something emerges.…