Suzanne Sbarge: Anomalies
November 7, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah
Click here for the Exhibition Brochure with an essay by Kelly Carper
Click here for the Review: Suzanne Sbarge’s Anomalies Suggest Hope in the Age of Extinction, 15 bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, 11/26/25
Anomalies is the culmination of a two-month artist residency at Ogden Contemporary Arts where Suzanne Sbarge created a solo exhibition featuring collage-based images exploring the animals and delicate ecosystem of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. The human/animal figures span large paintings, animation, cyanotypes, and three-dimensional printed objects. In science, anomalies highlight errors, rare events, or entirely new phenomena. Sbarge’s characters are anomalies in themselves: fluid when it comes to species, time, and gender, they exist in a dream-like realm where anything is possible.
Hybrid creatures have long populated mythologies, archetypal stories, and sacred art, where they reflect the permeability between human and animal and embody powers, instincts, and spiritual attributes that transcend the rational. In this time of environmental crisis and technological acceleration, Anomalies explores the interconnectivity among species to re-imagine our place within the web of life. These hybrid bodies are emblems of empathy, survival, and transformation, inviting audiences to examine what it means to belong, adapt, and transform in this time of profound planetary flux.