Look Again

October 2026 · Opening October 2 · First Friday Art Walk Look Again Ed Bateman  ·  Mike Libby  ·  Richard Stein October 2, 2026 — October 30, 2026 Bainbridge Island  ·  Park City Virtual  ·  Worldwide OPENING OCTOBER 2 Collector Portal Look Again — October 2, 2026 The Exhibition The show's directive is in the title. Every work in Look Again is not what it first appears to be. Ed Bateman's photographs look like Victorian daguerreotypes — they were made last year.

Mike Libby's insect specimens look like clockwork automata from a natural history cabinet — the gears are antique but the beetles are real. Richard Stein's paintings look like geometric abstraction — they are aerial photographs of California farm fields rendered in oil. The Wunderkammer tradition — the 16th century cabinet of wonders that preceded both the art museum and the natural history museum — brought together objects that blurred the line between nature and artifice, science and magic, the found and the made.

These three artists are working in exactly that space. Look Again is the invitation to slow down and see what's actually there. The Artists Ed Bateman · Mike Libby · Richard Stein View All Artists → Ed Bateman Photography · Fabrication · Victorian Anachronism Bateman makes photographs that look like daguerreotypes from 1859 — brass-fitted, oxidized, historically convincing.

They are not. They are contemporary fabrications built with period-accurate technique applied to subjects that could not have existed in the Victorian era. The confusion is the point.