Stanek Gallery Miami Presents
Between Walls & Worlds
SAMDI | Treacy Ziegler
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July 26 - August 30, 2025​
Stanek Gallery Miami is proud to present Between Walls and Worlds, an exhibition featuring the work of SAMDI and Treacy Ziegler, two parallel practices that navigate absence, adaptation, and the emotional space between visibility and loss. Through painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation, the exhibition explores how inner landscapes take form when the external world is unstable, absent, or restricted, shaping a visual conversation around the question:
When place is denied, what takes root instead?
Artist Talk & Panel Discussion
Thursday, July 31 6–9 PM
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Moderated by Commissioner Founder, Dejha Carrington
With featured artists SAMDI and Treacy Ziegler, artist & gallerist Katherine Stanek, and curator Maryam Davani Hosseini.
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Please join for an intimate conversation exploring the shared themes of culture, institution, spirit, environment and more.
SAMDI, Jete Dlo, 2024. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 51 × 68 in.
Treacy Ziegler, My Sister's Melting House, 2020.
Bronze, 12 × 5 × 5 in.
SAMDI, a Haitian-born artist currently based in Miami, works with densely layered textures, gestural abstraction, and recurring symbols (fish, birds, human form) that evoke both rupture and continuity. His mixed-media paintings often blur the boundaries between figure and environment, reflecting not only the experience of displacement but also resilience and reimagining.
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Rather than offering a fixed interpretation of his cultural roots, SAMDI allows memory, history, and invention to surface through mark-making, color, and form. His compositions are both grounded and untethered, representing complex, intuitive acts of connectedness across distances.​
SAMDI in his Little Haiti studio located in Miami.
Ziegler, working from rural upstate New York, approaches solitude not as separation but as a space for attunement. Her prints and paintings convey quiet intensity: taxidermied animals, vacant chairs, and muted landscapes rendered in deliberate, patient strokes. Her sculptural works, developed through long-term correspondence with incarcerated individuals, emerge from a relational process rooted in mutual exchange rather than representation.
These pieces, made from cast paper utilizing hundreds of handwritten letters, reflect shared acts of expression forged within constraint. Ziegler’s practice holds space for ambiguity, empathy, and recognition without resolution.​​​
Treacy Ziegler, Night Fable, 2025. Black and white Prisma Premier pencils on toned prepared panel. 16 1/2 × 10 in
Across both artists’ work, the recurring visual motifs of vacant chairs, layered silhouettes and animal forms, serve as anchors throughout the exhibition. These images are not symbolic puzzles to solve, but open forms that echo across media and space, creating a quiet but persistent rhythm of gesture, memory, connections, and inhabiting the in-between.
Between Walls and Worlds is not simply a reflection on exile or solitude, but an invitation to consider how creative practice can locate something vital in the absence of place, and how art becomes a form of presence, not escape. Chairs appear throughout both artists' work as quiet witnesses to memory, absence, intimacy, and waiting. In a special collaboration with Bougie Blue, real chairs are scattered throughout the gallery, echoing this theme and inviting viewers to pause, connect, and sit with the questions these works raise:
The exhibition opens July 26 and will be on view through August 30, 2025, with an artist talk and panel discussion on July 31 from 6–9 PM.