SHORING

BRADLEY MILLIGAN AND NICHOLAS WISNIEWSKI

MAY 14-JUNE 27, 2026

Shoring presents new work by artists Bradley Milligan and Nicholas Wisniewski. The title invokes the act of propping up a weakening structure and the constantly shifting zone where land meets water. Both bodies of work treat surfaces as archives where structure, history, and repair are built over time and made visible in the material itself.

Wisniewski works with the built environment as both subject and medium. Wisniewski carves images of hyper-local architecture into chunks of drywall excavated from abandoned buildings around Baltimore. For this exhibition, he enacts a structural intervention by removing parts of the gallery wall, exposing a view of the buildings across the street that he depicts in his detailed drywall sculptures. Milligan debuts a lifesize recreation of his minivan out of scrap wood and joint compound using labor intensive techniques honed through his trade as a carpenter. His wall works are built from layers of plaster, gesso, and wood; materials chosen for their history.

Together, the works in Shoring are about what persists through or is built from loss. Both artists locate a hard-won and practical hope in the act of repair. Wisniewski approaches the abandoned and the neglected with reverence, insisting that attention paid to a failing structure is itself a form of resistance. Milligan finds dignity and optimism in the skills and traditions of working people, treating craft not as nostalgia but as a living form of knowledge that a throwaway culture undervalues at its own expense. Taken together, their works propose that the impulse to fix, to preserve, to hold something together even imperfectly, is not a consolation for a broken world but evidence that people keep imagining a better one.