The Front Room is proud to present No Horizon, a group exhibition exploring water through unexpected perspectives and uncommon modes of seeing. Featuring works by Phil Buehler, Chris Coffin, Stephen Mallon, Linda Griggs, Patricia Smith, Shira Toren, Kathleen Vance, and Zoe Wetherall, the exhibition considers water not as backdrop or symbol alone, but as material, atmosphere, memory, and force.

Blue is consistently ranked among the world’s favorite colors across cultures and demographics. Likewise, studies of popular taste in art have repeatedly shown a preference for landscapes featuring water stretching toward a distant horizon line; images that promise calm, transcendence, and escape. No Horizon begins where that familiar image dissolves.

The artists in No Horizon interrupt and complicate conventional expectations of water imagery. Here, horizons disappear, scale becomes uncertain, and water emerges as both subject and destabilizing presence. The exhibition moves beneath surfaces and beyond postcard views, examining water as infrastructure, abstraction, erosion, reflection, containment, and transformation.

Across photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the works in No Horizon challenge viewers to reconsider one of art history’s most enduring motifs. Water becomes fragmented, obscured, industrialized, intimate, or uncanny  - at times meditative, at times threatening. In refusing the comfort of the distant horizon, the exhibition asks what remains when orientation itself is unsettled.

At a moment marked by rising seas, ecological instability, and renewed attention to humanity’s relationship with the natural world, No Horizon offers a timely meditation on perception, environment, and the limits of representation.