Schedule

12/13/2025 – Opening Reception (RSVP Here)
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

1/24/2026 – Closing Reception (RSVP Here)
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

About the Exhibit

Cleaning House: A Return to the New brings together Luke Walter’s practices as a photographer, printmaker, and writer, exploring what emerges when accumulated materials, deferred ideas, and foundational techniques converge. Over the past half decade, Walter built a home studio in his basement, assembling tools, constructing a black-and-white darkroom, and designing a custom exposure unit for cyanotype and screenprinting. Along the way, he collected surfaces, scraps, and objects such as wood, metal, and other materials that would eventually become both medium and collaborator.

During this same period, Walter carried a backlog of photographs from four trips dating back to 2022. Preparing for this exhibition became an act of reckoning: editing, revisiting, and ultimately working through years of deferred attention. Returning to earlier mediums and processes allowed him to apply everything he has learned and experienced to this point, transforming old materials and images into something renewed. By printing directly onto accumulated objects, he honored their histories while releasing them into new forms.

Text-based works run parallel to these prints, reflecting themes of memory, reflection, and narrative. Together, image and text trace a path of clearing, transformation, and creative renewal, demonstrating how revisiting foundational practices can become a way to engage more fully with the present.

Cleaning House: A Return to the New is both a literal and metaphorical clearing. It documents the transformation of materials, images, techniques, and ideas, inviting viewers to witness how the act of returning to tools, methods, and once-familiar moments can open space for the new.

Learn More

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