Riso poster printed by Constance / designed by Jon Gott

UPCOMING SHOW: Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.

Jon Gott

August 8 - September 6, 2025

Vessel City / Cleveland OH

documentation by Akeylah Wellington

This Is Not Sufficient

Akeylah Wellington + Margaret Kammerer

May 16 - June 14, 2025

Vessel City / Cleveland OH

These are not generic expressions of sentimentality, but deeply rooted personal reflections on memory, media, human nature, and a rapidly evolving relationship with technology.

This Is Not Sufficient considers emotional dissonance from inhabiting spaces both bodily and digital. The artist's handwork embodies tensions between immediacy and patience, remoteness and intimacy, between the feed and the thread.

Akeylah and Margaret recall an innocent sense of wonder with a new digital world in contrast with current fears of losing physical contact.

Sehnsucht [Jon Gott]

with text contributions by: Katherine Ainsley, Gabrielle Banzhaf and haiku by Evelyn Jordan

Published May 2024

Sibyl Gallery / New Orleans LA
Constance / Erik Keisewetter / New Orleans LA

This book was made as a conceptual piece designed to recall an obscure atlas or field guide in conjunction with Jon Gott’s show Foreign Correspondent (at Sibyl Gallery in New Orleans). The book features Gott's notes and poetry in conversation with made-and-found imagery. The book includes writing in 3 different formats, as well as drawings by Gabrielle. Only 50 editions were printed making the book a precious object which is meant to highlight the “economy” that Gott has built out within the show. This was a collaboration between Gabrielle and Erik Kiesewetter of Constance in New Orleans.

documentation by Nicole Carroll

If you receive a love letter from me you are fucked forever.

Jon Gott

March 23 - April 10, 2024

SHED Projects / Cleveland OH

For the past six years, one of us has always rushed home to spend the last few minutes of Valentine’s Day together. This year, it was my turn. Barely making it in time, I arrived home to a fully hung painting show – a collection meticulously crafted by Jon, mapping the memories and changes of our time together. I am proud to curate from this deeply personal collection.

This exhibition offers a glimpse into the most intimate moments and memories of our complex and multifaceted relationship. With an act of vulnerability, these works are displayed within the intimate and private spaces of our home. Originating from the first house we shared together in Lakewood, Ohio, these paintings have been years in the making.

documentation by Blake Cook

Crucifixion/Resurrection; a Dualist’s Wet Dream

Blake Cook

November 11 - December 4, 2023

Dream Clinic Project Space / Columbus OH

documentation by Nicole Carroll

Below The Rumble, Above The Sky, A Barbarous Noise, A Hermetic Wind, A Mystic Yawn

Jon Gott + Jo Willis

July 8 - 24, 2023

Usable Space / Milwaukee WI

GOOD DOG BAD DOG

Blake Cook, Terry Durst, Jon Gott, Abrahm Guthrie, Jordan Hess, Brit Krohmer, Ryan Leitner, Loretta Park, Melissa Pokorny + Zack Rafuls

November 12 - December 3, 2022

Shed Gallery / New Orleans LA

Heavily influenced by Sophie Calle and her practice of public vs. private, to me, SHED (and the act of having a “gallery”) is a social and philosophical experiment, a performance piece of sorts. A framework to explore, together with artists, ideas about social values and art, and how they are informed by the spaces and places where we live and work. Over the past year, we worked together with individual artists, one at a time, to produce projects tailor made for the space. For the final show of the season I decided to bring together a mix of new artists and continue conversations with artists that we had started with their solo shows.

Our relationships with dogs are complex, multifaceted, deeply emotional, and as old as time itself. Some of the first known representations of dogs were discovered in rock art on the Arabian peninsula dating back as far as 9,000 years. These particular images of leashed hunting dogs have helped solve the evolutionary puzzle of how and when dogs became domesticated. The people who painted them likely did it because dogs were a meaningful part of their daily lives. Our special counterparts, they have informed humans and our cultures, histories, and identities as much as anything else you could imagine. The artists in this show produced work with these feelings in mind.

With GOOD DOG BAD DOG I wanted to further test the pliability of our domestic sphere by installing works throughout the entire outdoor spaces of our home- including the deck, driveway, tool shed, and the house itself. Including these spaces allows the work to exist in ways that challenge both our concept of living space, and the places we encounter art. The materiality of these works is together with the materiality of place- underneath the giant oak tree, the home, the garden, amongst shovels and tools and bags of mulch. Some moments there's what feels like acceptance- an uncanny familiarity between the work and its surroundings, in others the encounter is more strange.

© GABRIELLE BANZHAF 2025