Sylvia Feliz Sewell

Future Perfect

January 16 – January 25, 2026
Opening Reception: January 17th 2026, 6-9pm

Closing Reception with Collage Workshop: January 25, 1-4pm

Keystone Gallery is pleased to present Future Perfect, a solo exhibition of new works by Sylvia Feliz Sewell. In Future Perfect, Sewell reimagines the desert landscape through a post-apocalyptic lens, envisioning a future in which ecological systems have collapsed and the desert survives only through acts of preservation and remembrance.

Working across collage, sculpture, and installation, Sewell constructs an environment shaped by this speculative future, where organic life is no longer sustained and persists only through preserved traces. By combining translucent resin with fragments gathered from the desert—cactus fibers, minerals, and other traces—Sewell investigates the tension between what remains in nature and what is made by humans. These strategies reflect contemporary anxieties around climate collapse and the impulse to preserve what can no longer be sustained, questioning whether preservation itself can stand in for living ecological systems.

Sewell’s practice is deeply rooted in the American Southwest, shaped by her experience as a fourth-generation Chicana Arizonan with longstanding ties to the Sonoran Desert. This landscape—defined by endurance, restraint, and transformation—serves as both material source and conceptual foundation. Her work draws from this inherited knowledge of place, merging cultural memory with speculative futures.