Random Access Memory

This January, Milk Moon is pleased to present ‘Random Access Memory’ as our first exhibition of 2026. Featuring work by Kelly Tapia-Chuning, Adam Young, and Adde Russell, the three-artist show is an impactful assemblage of works that delve into ideas of memory, imagination, and the inscrutable touchpoints where the two bleed into one another.

With her carefully dismantled vintage serapes (woven Mexican blankets), textile artist Kelly Tapia-Chuning explores both personal and cultural history through the lens of her mixed-Indigenous ancestry. Tapia-Chuning critically examines the complications inherent in exploring Indigenous histories within the confines of the very systems that sought to erase them, while simultaneously reclaiming the serapes themselves by re-centering their narrative around Indigenous healing.

A self-taught painter born and raised in the lowlands of Louisiana, Adam Young draws on themes of nature, folklore, history, and storytelling in stylized, narrative works that combine text, imagery, and symbolism. Intimately embodying his own personal ethic, Young's acrylic tableaus on Douglas Fir tell tales of personal mythology and a spirituality that views humans as merely part of nature, instead of its masters.

Adde Russell’s operatic oil tableaus pair meticulously executed photorealism with expressionistic flourishes born from the inherent messiness of the artistic process. The resulting works feel at once gravely serious, slyly lighthearted, and captivatingly unknowable, inviting the viewer to conjure their own narratives out of her rich visual source material.