Friend of a Friend

curated by Bucky Miller and Brooke Frank

February 27th - April 11th, 2026
Opening reception February 27th, 6-8PM

To be a friend of a friend implies a curious sort of kinship; a person we, like, kinda know. This exhibit began with us sharing artists we were individually familiar with, and brought together works that centered slippery relationships with the familiar. Through disparate methods, these artists find ways to rethink, animate, transform, and even suggest some very regular stuff. Materials so common that they’re often invisible surprise us by pretending to be alive. In a weird way, these artworks become our “friends.” They might love us back if we pet them, elicit from us an empathetic wince, or send us rooting for them as they embark upon searches through memory and conjecture. 

The artists in Friend of a Friend find gravity through lightness, and vice versa. They gesture toward the enormous possibility contained in the ordinary things around us. They are worth getting to know. We can vouch.

Participating artists -

Camille Casemeier, Chelsea Couch, Rebekka Federle, Celeste Fincher, Abigail Hedley, Megan Lee, Rebecca Moss, Roula Partheniou, + Dave Dyment, & Yuko Yamaguchi

About the curators -

Bucky Miller is an artist and writer who works with the dueling forces of extreme presence and imaginative escape. He is a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, has exhibited at spaces including the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Phoenix Art Museum, and numerous galleries internationally. His first self-published book was selected as one of photo-eye’s best photobooks of 2016. Miller’s work has been featured in publications like n+1, Der Greif, and The Believer. He has an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, a BFA in Art (Photography) from Arizona State University, and also studied at the Royal College of Art Program in Sculpture. He has participated in the Stove Works Residency, Recycled Artist in Residency, Welcome To My Homepage Digital Artist Residency, and the Little Brown Mushroom Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers. Bucky is a frequent contributor of photo essays to the Texas arts publication Glasstire and 1/3 of the Brooklyn-based pop-up gallery Wraymour and Flanigan. He is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Tennessee School of Art.

Brooke Frank is an artist based in Miami, Florida. She approaches painting as a methodology for gathering and interpreting information in order to pry open ideas about fact, fiction, and uncertainty. Her recent exhibitions include IMMATERIAL curated by Melissa Wallen at Collective 62 in Miami, FL, “Two Lies and a Truth” (2023) at Ground Floor Contemporary in Birmingham, Alabama; and “ZOONOTIC HEX” (2022) at Field Projects, New York City, New York. She has been an artist-in-residence at Stove Works (2025) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Art Farm (2016) in Marquette, Nebraska, and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts (2016) in Boca Raton, Florida. Her work has been acquired by the Girls’ Club Collection and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts. Frank received an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in Studio Art in 2019.