Curing - Evidence of Control Released: A Solo Exhibition by Megan Waller

I started by trying to be looser. My nature pulled me back to hyperfixation, micro detail, restrained mark making, worry, and the need to control. The wish to release all of it pushed me forward. I stopped painting with oil and began pouring epoxy in blocks of color. I learned her nature, the opposite of mine. No planning can guide her. She doesn't find stillness in something completed or calmed. She finds it while she's moving, in the living while it's happening. Nothing waits to end. It all happens at once. I allowed the forms to reveal themselves, the colors to set, the chaos to still as a snapshot in time. Then I married our natures. I enhanced a lip, a row of eyelashes, a glare in an iris. We worked in harmony, the epoxy and I. The work is evidence of control released, worry stilled, the chaos of living embraced. Skin becomes weather. A face turns into water, or is it below? Raw and chaotic, and simultaneously still. To cure is to harden into a finished form. To cure is to heal. To cure is to age. We bear witness to it all, the last year, a moment in time. To let things lie. To accept them as they are. To practice trust and repeat. Megan Waller is a figurative artist working from her home studio. She holds a BFA in fine art from Arizona State University and has exhibited in group and solo shows in Arizona and New York. Her work centers on the human form, exploring the body through painting, ceramics, and, most recently, poured epoxy. Opening Reception: Date: November 20, 2026 Time: 6-10 PM Gallery Hours: By Appointment 602-402-505 For press inquiries: eyelounge@gmail.com