Luciano’s Garden

I turned my garden into an alternative art space to share art and artists whose work I admire, provide a relaxed atmosphere to interact with art, and cultivate a genuine community.

Semi Manual

Group Show: Talya Petrillo, Lily Pressman, Masha Sheinina, Luciano Thomas

Exhibition Dates: November 9 — December 6 2025

In this world that we live in, the labor we perform is what defines us. Hegemonic structures are in place to determine the type of labor members of society perform, and in turn the access to power each member is given. Explicit and implicit forms of control serve to dictate the type of work that is innate to each type of body. The valuation of the labor has more to do with the bodies that perform it, rather than the nature of the labor itself. Semi Manual subverts societal notions around labor by exploring the relationship between tools and the body. If tools define the nature of the labor, and the labor defines the individual, then the tools become a foundation of our very identity. Semi Manual speaks to the complex relationship of the body, the tool, and the systems that bind them.

Luciano Thomas

De-Limbing an Oppressor For Higher Crop Yield
oil on canvas

Masha Sheinina

Intellectual Labor
ceramic

Masha Sheinina

Shauna’s Hammer, Maslow’s Hammer, Hammer Time
ceramic

Talya Petrillo

Stuck Points
buckets, Behr paint colors matched from beauty filtered selfies through the Home Depot color match machine, tissue paper, 5 gallon buckets, 2 gallon buckets, 1 gallon buckets, shredded police uniform pant fragments, sharpened broom sticks, concrete