grounding (2025) hosts a range of mixed media sculptures and 2D media that reflect the artist’s ongoing research in the realms of speculative environments and interspecies relationships. The exhibition responds to increasingly harsh environments, and a need for places of sanctuary and transformation. The works are primarily built upon the physical explorations in merging naturally derived dyes and pigments, wool processing, stained glass, fibers, and ceramic, with underpinnings in queer ecological studies, speculative design, and crip theory. The 2D mixed media pieces in the show were first sketched in Saxtons River, VT, in the garden of Michele Burgess (1960-2024). Michele was an exceptional mentor, chosen family member, accomplished artist, and in the words of Jenny Yoshida Park, “a doula, delivering artists into the world.” On November 2, 2024, she passed suddenly and unexpectedly, leaving a rift in the hearts of many, including Ivy who loved her like another mother. Bill Kelly, Michele’s husband, is another formative figure in Ivy’s development as an artist. Ivy and Bill made work in Michele’s garden and studio this summer, spaces that were her sanctuaries, using her paper and drawing tools from works that she never got to finish. The sculptural works in grounding (2025) grow from the artist’s direct experiences in wilderness spaces, from her upbringing in the Sonoran Desert to her current home in the Great Basin. The structures in the exhibition resonate with cacti skeletons, insect egg sacs and cocoons, and human detritus. This exhibition signals a move away from the artist’s nomadic tendencies and focus on grounding in one’s home ecosystem, a settling into space of a sort.