EXHIBITION: TABLE
TABLE
GROUP EXHIBITION
ALANNA AIRITAM • RILEY GOODMAN • MARCIA BRICKER HALPERIN • CLAIRE ROSEN • DANA SHERWOOD
Friday, November 7, 2025 – Saturday, December 20, 2025
FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK OPENING | Friday, November 7, 5-8pm
Claire Rosen, The Ostrich Feast, 2016. Archival pigment print on canvas, 51 x 120 inches framed. Edition #3 of 7. INQUIRE.
Candela is thrilled to announce the opening of , a solo exhibition by LA-based artist Stephanie Shih.
In conversation with Stephanie Shih’s solo exhibition, Little Eats 小吃, Candela will be featuring a selection of still and moving image works centered around the table as a space for sustenance, dialogue, and connection between humans and the greater world.
The exhibition can be seen from the window as viewers catch sight of night vision raccoons and opossum delighting in tea party style setups prepared by multidisciplinary artist, Dana Sherwood. The New York-based Sherwood explores the relationship between humans and the natural world in order to understand culture and behavior in a changing environment through her own style of magical-realism. These concepts continue with her video, Other Dessert Landscapes, which plays in the front gallery.
Through the familiar and sumptuous visual language of European still life, Tucson artist Alanna Airitam’s White Privilege presents questions of racial injustice woven within the American narrative. The work combines ideals and references to America’s past, present, and future of inequality as the still life’s elements decay across three panels.
Richmond artist Riley Goodman’s flatlay styled still life compositions of silver platters, sliced fruits, and ashtrays tap into a larger practice of inquiring folklore, American history, and humankind's relation to the environments they inhabit in an effort to understand what endures, and how this manifests through the passage of time.
Viewers are transported to a neighborhood diner in Marcia Bricker Halperin’s series of people eating at the now-closed Dubrow’s Cafeteria locations in 1970’s, reconnecting with the experience of a communal space and a shared meal.
In the grand sets of Claire Rosen’s Fantastical Feasts, various animals are presented dining at tables overflowing with their favorite foods. As a distinctly human ritual associated with status and elegance, the formal banquet, via iconography of The Last Supper, encourages viewers to consider those in the animal kingdom more humanly, affording them more rights and status. The feasts invite viewers to reflect on the nature of society, our relationship and responsibility to the creatures with which we share the planet.
The gallery’s small back room will feature additional works from Candela’s inventory relating to the table as a physical and conceptual space.
DECEMBER FIRST FRIDAY
HAPPY HOUR
with TABLE artist Riley Goodman
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5