Still, then moving

Meghan Cox, Jaqueline Cedar, and Sarah Pater

June 6 - July 6, 2025
907 Christian Street, Philadelphia PA 19147

Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 2025

Blah Blah Gallery is pleased to present Still, Then Moving, a three-person exhibition featuring new works by Meghan Cox, Jaqueline Cedar, and Sarah Pater, opening Friday, June 6, from 7–10 PM.

Still, Then Moving explores the shifting boundaries of perception, memory, and everyday experience. Through distinct yet complementary approaches, Cox, Cedar, and Pater each use painting to navigate the subtle interplay between stillness and transformation, presence and interiority.

Meghan Cox’s works on paper resemble illogical trompe l’oeil bookplates—decorative, fragmentary, and dreamlike. Page numbers appear at random, text unfolds as internal dialogue, and portraits float between banality and fantasy. These diaristic compositions evoke a private mythology, inviting nonlinear reading and quiet introspection.

Jaqueline Cedar’s paintings depict intimate, psychologically charged spaces where time feels suspended. Blurred repetition and softened forms evoke movement and memory, while small details draw the viewer in and release them again. Her paintings invite connection through their emotional vulnerability and surreal familiarity.

Sarah Pater constructs non-narrative visual diaries that collapse physical and virtual space. Her layered, screen-like compositions reflect fractured ways of seeing in contemporary life. Drawing on both observation and invention, Pater explores the experience of drifting between sensory presence and disembodied attention.

Together, these artists present painting as a meditative act—one that holds space for ambiguity, emotional resonance, and the transformative nature of the everyday.