October, 2025

Matthew Rolston
Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits
October 26 – November 10

Created in the shadowed corridors of Palermo, Sicily’s Capuchin Catacombs, Rolston’s Vanitas offers an unblinking encounter with centuries-old Christian mummies – faces held in a delicate suspension between life and oblivion. Through painterly hues and sculptural light, Rolston renders them not as relics but as haunting presences, radiant with memory and loss. The work meditates on the fragility of the flesh, the persistence of devotion, and the mystery of what lies beyond.