A group show of 7 artists, curated by Shannon Rae Fincke in dialogue with the early feminist literary classic The Yellow Wallpaper and an immersive theatrical production of Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020--contextualizing and illuminating the disturbing and oppressing ideas, constraints, isolation, suffering, alienation, fracturing, and resistance—detailed in the 19th century’s text to today’s still ever-present misinformed and patriarchal attitudes towards the mental and physical health of women.

The Middle Room is pleased to present Here I Can Creep Smoothly On The Floor, And Fit In That Smooch Around The Wall, So I Cannot Lose My Way, an unorthodox group exhibition of 2-D & 3-D works by artists Alexandra Carter, Nina Gerada, Jill Lavetsky, Galia Linn, Sarana Mehra, Daniela Soberman, and Camilla Taylor in our main gallery space. This exhibit will be on view from July 20 - August 10, 2024, along with a concurrent connected solo show in our project space entitled Things Nobody Knows But Me—featuring artist Cindy Craig. Here I Can Creep Smoothly On The Floor, And Fit In That Smooch Around The Wall, So I Cannot Lose My Way is a is a group show of 7 artists, curated by Shannon Rae Fincke in dialogue with the early feminist literary classic The Yellow Wallpaper—written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and an immersive theatrical production of Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020—written by Jennifer Maisel, directed by Emily Chase, and performed by Karen Malina White, with Rob Nagle. This rebellious interdisciplinary curation centers on the intense interrelation between the startling works of Alexandra Carter, Nina Gerada, Jill Lavetsky, Galia Linn, Sarana Mehra, Daniela Soberman, and Camilla Taylor with The Yellow Wallpaper and Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020—a contemporary re-examination of the 1892 short horror story about a woman driven crazy by the rest cure for postpartum depression: now set in a covid-era quarantine. The engrossing conversation between this group exhibition in our main space, held in tandem with a concurrent solo show in our project space, the original text, and the new play inspired by it—contextualizes and illuminates the disturbing and oppressing ideas, constraints, isolation, suffering, alienation, fracturing, and resistance—detailed in the 19th century’s text to today’s still ever-present misinformed and patriarchal attitudes towards the mental and physical health of women.