ELSEWHERE ART FAIR 2026
“I’m just an ordinary human, but I don’t feel so ordinary today” - One Republic
Feia is proud to present Almost Ordinary, a group exhibition in Suite 201 of the Yowie Hotel for the inaugural edition of Elsewhere Art Fair in Philadelphia. Featuring six artists based in Los Angeles and New York - many with personal or educational ties to Philadelphia - the exhibition traces the threads that connect interior and exterior worlds. Moving across painting, sculpture, drawing, and design, Almost Ordinary navigates the space between domesticity and mythology, reality and fiction, history and speculative futures, and the ordinary and the uncanny.
Drawing on intimate material languages and narrative fragments, the works in Almost Ordinary craft a hotel room that feels at once familiar and estranged. Household gestures become ritualistic, architectural forms slip into dream logic, and figures emerge as unexpected characters. Together, the exhibition opens a porous boundary between lived experience and imagined worlds.
Casey Baden’s practice considers the intimacy of mythology, while often using tactile material processes as a form of haptic communication. Charles Hickey’s work engages with painterly language and art history, creating compositions that oscillate between structure and improvisation. Marianna Peragallo, who graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, reimagines everyday objects of consumption and disposal that evoke both personal and collective histories. Melanie Delach, who attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, constructs scenes that blend figuration and abstraction, often drawing on art historical references alongside deeply personal narratives. Nicholas Bono Kennedy’s work dissects inhabited spaces, exploring how light in particular influences human perception and experience. Tadashi Adamson’s practice spans painting, sculpture and design, incorporating the Japanese concept of “tsukumogami,” the spiritual belief that after 100 years, an object comes to life.
Together, Almost Ordinary invites these artists to offer a constellation of approaches that reflect on how images, and the spaces they inhabit, mediate between what is real, and what is felt, remembered, or imagined.
Feia
Founded by husband-duo Thomas Martinez Pilnik and Jake Cavallo, Feia celebrates failure, brings people together, and curates beautiful spaces with unconventional features. Feia, meaning Ugly in Portuguese, is more than just an insult. It expresses curiosity, intrigue, excitement, novelty, beauty, disgust, and everything in between. Feia recently opened their brand new 1200 square foot gallery, built from the ground up in Los Angeles to serve as its permanent exhibition site.
Drawing on intimate material languages and narrative fragments, the works in Almost Ordinary craft a hotel room that feels at once familiar and estranged. Household gestures become ritualistic, architectural forms slip into dream logic, and figures emerge as unexpected characters. Together, the exhibition opens a porous boundary between lived experience and imagined worlds.
Casey Baden’s practice considers the intimacy of mythology, while often using tactile material processes as a form of haptic communication. Charles Hickey’s work engages with painterly language and art history, creating compositions that oscillate between structure and improvisation. Marianna Peragallo, who graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, reimagines everyday objects of consumption and disposal that evoke both personal and collective histories. Melanie Delach, who attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, constructs scenes that blend figuration and abstraction, often drawing on art historical references alongside deeply personal narratives. Nicholas Bono Kennedy’s work dissects inhabited spaces, exploring how light in particular influences human perception and experience. Tadashi Adamson’s practice spans painting, sculpture and design, incorporating the Japanese concept of “tsukumogami,” the spiritual belief that after 100 years, an object comes to life.
Together, Almost Ordinary invites these artists to offer a constellation of approaches that reflect on how images, and the spaces they inhabit, mediate between what is real, and what is felt, remembered, or imagined.
Feia
Founded by husband-duo Thomas Martinez Pilnik and Jake Cavallo, Feia celebrates failure, brings people together, and curates beautiful spaces with unconventional features. Feia, meaning Ugly in Portuguese, is more than just an insult. It expresses curiosity, intrigue, excitement, novelty, beauty, disgust, and everything in between. Feia recently opened their brand new 1200 square foot gallery, built from the ground up in Los Angeles to serve as its permanent exhibition site.