Lemniscatus
Casey Baden and Nicholas Bono Kennedy
Feia Gallery, 6164 Oak Crest Way
May 30 – July 12, 2026
Opening: May 30, 4-9PM
“There’s a ribbon in the sky for our love” – Stevie Wonder
Feia is proud to present Lemniscatus, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s Los Angeles space, featuring new works by Casey Baden and Nicholas Bono Kennedy. Opening on May 30th, the exhibition takes its title from the Latin lemniscatus, meaning “decorated with ribbons” or “twined with bands,” a root later associated with the lemniscate – the symbol of infinity. Throughout the exhibition, the ribbon emerges as both material and metaphor: a connective form that binds narrative to space, memory to perception, and two distinct artistic practices into continuous dialogue.
Married and working from a shared studio, Baden and Kennedy occupy parallel creative worlds that remain deeply intertwined. Their practices unfold independently yet in constant proximity, shaped by ongoing exchange, observation, and mutual influence. Lemniscatus reflects this condition of closeness, revealing the invisible threads that connect separate sensibilities while allowing each to retain its own rhythm and language.
Casey Baden’s work draws from mythology, archetype, and narrative construction, creating paintings and forms that feel suspended between ancient memory and contemporary imagination. Her compositions suggest fragments of stories without fixed beginnings or endings, where symbols recur and transform across complex and multi-layered surfaces. Baden approaches mythology as a living structure rather than a static history, through which personal and collective experience can be continuously rewritten. In her work, the ribbon becomes a narrative device winding through time.
Nicholas Bono Kennedy’s practice centers on light, atmosphere, and the emotional architecture of domestic space. His works transform familiar interiors into meditative environments charged with psychological presence. Through subtle tonal shifts, spatial ambiguity, and moments of strangeness, Kennedy traces the ephemeral movement of light across rooms and surfaces, revealing the intimacy and instability embedded within everyday environments. The ribbon appears here as something immaterial, a line of illumination, a passage through space, or a lingering connection between presence and absence.
Together, Baden and Kennedy construct an exhibition rooted in continuity, reciprocity, and return. Lemniscatus considers how lives, spaces, and creative practices become entwined over time by looping back on themselves while continuously evolving. The exhibition examines the ribbon not simply as adornment, but as a structure of attachment and a form capable of carrying stories, relationships, and acts of looking across terrains.
As the inaugural exhibition at Feia Gallery, Lemniscatus reflects the Feia’s commitment to presenting contemporary practices that foreground material sensitivity, conceptual depth, and intimate dialogue between artists.
