PSYCHOSPHERE

EXHIBITION DETAILS

May 29-30
Opening Reception: May 29, 6-9pm
Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, Queens

A udrey and I moved to New York after college, leaving the red states we grew up in for the hallucinogenic promise of the city. We arrived in a place now hostile to the working artist: a landscape increasingly molded by the invisible hand of private equity, where a cup of coffee easily reaches $10, and going out is often just too expensive. We found that there were few spaces here for artists without costly MFAs, connected parents, or family money. The city felt entirely unforgiving to artists without that conversely humbling prefix of nepo. Like the majority of young working artists in the city, we both struggled to find platforms for our creative practices.

Born from this lack of opportunity to show work outside of mainstream and blue-chip spheres, we formed Angel Archives in 2025. Our creative collective hosts multidisciplinary exhibitions and projects outside of the “accepted” art world, fostering creative exchange away from profit-focused industries. Our mission is to create spaces for early-career and underrepresented artists to show their work to the public. We believe art must be able to exist under the conditions of honest creativity, challenging dialogue, inclusive community, and caring connection. It is fundamental that artists have the ability to share their visions, ideas, and selves outside of traditional economic and cultural structures.

Emma Long and Audrey Roloff, photographed by Clare Porter Manning

Audrey, a filmmaker and a multimedia artist, works in video editing, production, and social media. Emma, a visual artist and writer, works as a gallerist and at a vintage shop. We both juggle full-time work in multiple part-time jobs while also running all production, curation, and logistics of Angel Archives.

PSYCHOSPHERE: May 29-30

Angel Archives’ 2026 exhibition PSYCHOSPHERE will explore the concept of collective consciousness. Featuring the work of over 30 unrepresented artists and performers, PSYCHOSPHERE weaves together a communal imagining of the psychic web of connection that unites all living beings. The weekend exhibition will investigate the mystic symbols that dominate our collective cerebral existence: the mirrored primordial myths, shared traditions, and parallel ideations that echo across the globe. From dream paintings to filmic explorations of anxious numerology to sculptural manifestations of submarine communications cables, our artists explore the knotted mass of communality that is collective consciousness.

The psychosphere is embodiment within the whole. It is human connection, planetary consciousness, empathy, and care. It is the mystic infrastructure of life itself: the timelessness of conscious beings, the ancestral vibrations of humankind and the planet. No action is solitary. No idea exists in isolation. No soul lives in separation. All is one.
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Artwork by Leah Limpert Walt, on exhibition at PSYCHOSPHERE

Our community is a group of emerging, working artists with a diverse range of mediums: film, dance, painting, sculpture, music, installation, and performance art. The artists in our exhibition work a variety of second jobs to maintain their artistic practices: from retail to set design, gigs painting monograms on handbags to camera assisting, art handling to archival work. As executive assistants, teachers in NYC public schools, professors, production freelancers, accountants, and preschool dance teachers, our artists balance their creative journeys with the necessary work to pay for the ever-increasing cost of living in New York City.

Exhibiting artists include: Deni Artemisa Espinoza, Gianfranco Bello, Isabella Choi, Joseph L. Cox V, Clayton, Xingjian Ding, Emmaline Hamilton, Jacob Frederick Hartman, Olivia Hicolaou, Marley Howard, Amanda Kelly, Sage Klein, Leah Limpert Walt, Emma Long, Rajesh Nandwani, Logan Normandeau, Nora Nucullaj, Daniella Porras-Sholes, Juno Quigley, Persephone Roe, Liz Roff, Germán Rojas, Audrey Roloff, Aqua Rose, Charlie Rudalavage, Lis Sundberg & Claudia Bonaccorsi, Peter Tresnan, Rachel Wilkins, CORALIA, Cammi McDermott, chrysanthemum and the crow, and After Dream Noon.

We are so proud to bring this group of incredible, talented creatives together into creative dialogue. Their work is essential to the cultural landscape of the city- one that is increasingly tied to consumerism and its resulting monoculture of sterility.

‍PSYCHOSPHERE is on view May 29 – 30, with an opening reception May 29, from 6-9 pm. On May 30, open gallery hours are from 12 - 7 pm, and performances from 7 - 9 pm. This artistic happening will be hosted at Lorimoto Gallery in Ridgewood, Queens. ∎

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