October 30 - December 12, 2025
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 30, 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Thursday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Full Circle brings together the work of Brienne Brown, Robin Crocker, and Allison Paschke—three artists whose practices are individually distinct yet resonant in their shared embrace of the circular, the cyclical, and the sacred. Their collaboration grew not from a predetermined theme, but from a mutual recognition of form and meaning recurring in their work: the sphere, the spiral, the loop, the orbit.
Each artist explores the shape of the circle not merely as geometry, but as metaphor. Brown stitches dreamlike creatures into layered textile landscapes, where embroidered suns, moons, and rounded forms pulse with personal symbolism and intuitive play. Her quilts are time maps—diaries stitched into soft topographies—where memory and imagination revolve together.
Crocker’s sculptural pieces and installations, composed of spiraling texts and symbolic objects, investigate language as a tether between the spiritual and material world. Her circular forms invite both movement and contemplation, echoing the structure of prayer beads, labyrinths, and webs—spaces that hold tension between technology and transcendence.
Paschke’s work, grounded in light-reactive and translucent materials, reveals how geometry becomes experience. Circles, ellipses, and pyramids are transformed by resin, mirror, porcelain, and shadow—shapes that reflect the impermanence of light and the hand’s subtle imperfections. Her work asks us to notice what flickers and shifts, and to pause inside that fragile, changing moment.
Together, the artists draw us into a conversation about presence and process, the pull of repetition and return. In Full Circle, the artists do not illustrate a concept—they enact it. They offer viewers an opportunity to dwell inside the quiet revolutions of form, time, and matter.
For more information, please visit www.bristolcc.edu/gallery or contact Kathleen Hancock at Kathleen.hancock@bristolcc.edu or 774.357.2439.