January 16th - March 7th 2026
Gallery Hours: 24/7
miniMAC (miniature Mount Airy Contemporary)
25 West Mt. Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119
www.mountairycontemporary.com
miniMAC is pleased to announce Grounded, an exhibition of artworks by Cindy Stockton-Moore and Rebecca Schultz. Both artists examine the natural world, exploring geologic and ephemeral time scales, fragmentation of time and matter, and collapsing the distance between subject and artwork by incorporating foraged materials and soil as the media itself, so that the work is grounded in the earth and flora around us.
Cindy says, “My work uses foraged and found materials to create paintings for atmospheric videos, immersive installations and handmade animations.”
“The ‘Strange-Scented Shade’ pair are recent works on paper that explore dissonance within an ecological art practice. They employ alternative printmaking techniques with seaweed, stencils and man-made polymers in contrast with natural, locally sourced color. Amidst the mark-making flora, an assortment of local snakes lie in wait. The prints were created while in a collaborative residency in New York; the resulting studio collages mark the beginning of my investigation into low-tech multiplane animation.”
“The Occlusion Series explores parallel themes of obstruction and imagery. Fragmented, large scale works expose and reveal botanical elements alongside remnants of tense cohabitation.”
Rebecca says of her work, “My creative practice aims to cultivate a sense of wonder for the interconnected ecosystems that surround–and include–us. For a number of years, geology has been a core inspiration for this work: rocks seem so immutable, but they are formed by some of the most dynamic processes on our planet. And recent research has advanced our understanding of the connections between rock-forming minerals and microbes, a relationship which created the conditions for life on earth.”
The works in this exhibition are inspired by the Wissahickon Formation, a unit of bedrock that stretches through Southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. It is composed of the metamorphic rocks schist, gneiss, and quartzite. The dramatic ripples and folds in these rocks occurred during the Taconic Orogeny–a process that takes place when converging tectonic plates compress and crumple to form mountains. The Taconic took place during the Silurian Period (approximately 440 to 420 million years ago), when life on land was just starting to evolve. To learn about rocks is to try to grasp the vastness of geologic (or “deep”) time. According to geologist and author Marcia Bjornerud, “Fathoming deep time is arguably geology’s single greatest contribution to humanity. Just as the microscope and telescope extended our vision into spatial realms once too minuscule or too immense for us to see, geology provides a lens through which we can witness time in a way that transcends the limits of our human experiences.”
These paintings were created using egg tempera and oil paint made with mineral, soil, and plant-based pigments, many of which started as components of the ecosystems that have sprung from the Wissahickon itself.
Some of the works in this exhibition are currently on view at the High Point Cafe at 7210 Cresheim Road, Philadelphia.
Cindy Stockton-Moore is a Philadelphia based artist who works with aqueous media to create multimedia animations, works on paper, and site-specific installations. Creating ink from natural materials and hyperlocal species, she connects to the landscape in tactile ways, cultivating themes of entangled resilience. Installations currently on view (2026) include ’an openness to all things lovely’ at Glen Foerd and ‘Other Absences’ at Eastern State Penitentiary. Her experimental collaborative videos have been screened in festivals and exhibitions nationwide and abroad. .
More of Cindys’ work can be found at cindystocktonmoore.com.
Rebecca Schultz is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Elkins Park, PA. She has exhibited nationally, with solo exhibitions at the Sawtooth National Recreation Area headquarters in Ketchum, ID; Abington Art Center; Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery in Sandwich, NH; and NoBa Artspace. Recent group exhibitions include Laudato Si: Caring for Our Common Home at the Maguire Museum, We Are All Compost at Big Ramp Gallery, and WANDERING: Observations of Our Watershed at Fairmount Water Works. Rebecca’s public artworks include two community murals and several community-engaged projects with Mural Arts Philadelphia and site-specific installations in public parks and gardens throughout the Philadelphia region and beyond. She has collaborated with scientists and environmental educators, including with the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership and Riverfront North Partnership in the Philadelphia region. Rebecca holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, an MA in Community-Based Arts Education from San Francisco State University, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Confluence program at the University of New Mexico. She has been awarded residencies in Canada, Iceland, Wyoming, Ireland, California, and Idaho.
More about Rebecca’s work can be found at rebeccaschultzprojects.com.
miniMAC is a project of MAC (Mount Airy Contemporary). MAC has been curating shows in northwest Philadelphia since 2009.
