QUINN ANTONIO BRICEÑO, IDO MICHAELI, AND COMMON LORE: CIRCULATION, CRAFT, and COLLECTIVE MYTH

August 7 – September 19, 2026

The Foundry Art Centre is thrilled to announce the opening of three new exhibitions: solo exhibitions by Quinn Antonio Briceño and Ido Michaeli, as well as a small group exhibition by national tattoo artists working in other media.

New York-based interdisciplinary artist Ido Michaeli’s Central Park Runners: The Four Seasons explores ideas of connection across cultures, challenging familiar divisions such as East and West. Through the creation of handwoven carpet runners made in Afghanistan, these four works depict New York City’s Central Park through the visual language of Afghan weaving traditions. The project connects Central Park to the early gardens of Mesopotamia, inviting viewers to examine history through a broader lens. The Four Seasons serves as a reminder that culture is never static; it is forever changing, shaped, and enriched through the connections we make with one another.

Quinn Antonio Briceño, a Nicaraguan-American artist based in St. Louis, navigates the complexities of a mixed identity shaped by cultural dissonance and belonging. He creates paintings that merge the visual languages of Americana and Latinx to construct new environments where people who exist between worlds can see themselves belong. Briceño’s practice blends painting with collage, incorporating found materials tied to his life in the United states alongside imagery rooted in Nicaraguan landscapes, history, and memory. These layered surfaces become sites of cultural collision and reconciliation, transforming society’s scraps and in the process celebrates the working class of his family’s personal experiences.

Common Lore: Circulation, Craft, & Mythology brings together artists from around the country for an exhibition that centers on how imagery circulates within tattooing’s history – how designs are borrowed, repeated, and reinterpreted through making and storytelling until they take on a life of their own. Artists featured in Common Lore are Bryan Kachel and Mason Montgomery of Seattle, Washington; Victor Webster of Monte Rio, California; Stephanie Brown of Troy, New York; Ellen St. Michael of Kansas City, Missouri, and Omar Mahmud of St. Louis, Missouri. This exhibition is co-curated with Joshua Martin, a tattooer, fine artist, and curator based in Kansas City, Missouri. This exhibition will coincide with the Foundry Art Centre’s third annual Tattoo Arts and Crafts Fair scheduled August 14-16.

These new exhibitions will open Friday, August 7, 5-8pm, as part of the Foundry Art Centre’s First Friday programming. Art activities, live music by Emerson Magaña, the Foundry bar, and more will be available throughout the evening.

All exhibitions are free and open to the public in the Foundry Art Centre’s Main Galleries. Exhibitions run through September 19th.

For more information, please visit us at foundryartcentre.org or email Jessica Mannisi, director of exhibitions, at [email protected].

About the Foundry Art Centre
As a vibrant home to the arts, the Foundry Art Centre raises awareness and appreciation of the arts throughout the region. Alive with activity, the Centre’s programming reinforces the importance of the arts and helps ensure that arts and culture remain vital. Artists, patrons, young people and the community at large continually find new ways to interact at this unique facility.