Serva Pool Flux 2026 Announced

#01 Anacolu–– BY ANTHONY ALSTON
APRIL 17, 2026

Anthony Alston’s work tends to involve aspects of the aleatoric, opportunistic, and transitory. Themes gravitate around predictability, perseverance, and insipidness. Loosely organized and systematic processes cajole a semblance of cohesion and continuity from ostensible serendipity, happenstance, or randomness.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the conceptual underpinning of any given piece typically determines its medium. Projects are often deceptively minimal, or, recursively layered: relics and distortions becoming magnified by each subsequent generation and permutation, a literal and figurative patina of inherent artifacts iteratively speckling surfaces, structures, and processes.

The title of the exhibition, Anacolu— refers to a rhetorical or grammatical disruption of expectation or direction. An overarching motif for the exhibition is the re-contextualization of disparate and antiquated drawings, sculptures, and photos by means of collage. Originally considered finished, the pieces can now be seen as ‘remixed’ or ‘remastered’, fitting into a more cohesive compilation. Additionally, a new site-specific sound piece using real-time input from the audience and unique reverberation of the space rounds out the interdisciplinary gamut.

#02 Tension Sanctuary by Maria Samuelson
June 26-27, 2026

Maria Samuelson’s work in textile installation and sculpture utilizes bra and lingerie-making materials, engaging themes of reclaiming and reimagining heretofore externally determined, corporatized, and generic standards of beauty, femininity, and shape that have been foisted on women and then presumed to be intimate and hidden. Samuelson’s project Tension Sanctuary explores personal associations, cultural impositions, and political implications that are held in tension; these networks are pulled, stretched, and stitched into one aesthetic presentation that points to womanhood, motherhood, and a tenuous architecture of experiences rather than human form.

Maria Samuelson (b. 1978, Salt Lake City, USA) is a Utah, USA-based artist and mother to a special-needs child. She holds an MA from Ohio University and a BA from Brigham Young University. She has a forthcoming exhibition at Red Flower Studios, Salt Lake City, Utah; and has also exhibited internationally at Armadillo Gallery, Leipzig, Germany; Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah; Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah; I Never Read, Art Book Fair, Basel, Switzerland; SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; Broadway Gallery, New York City, NY; among others. Her artist residencies include TAKT Leipzig, Germany, and Leipzig International Artists Program, Leipzig, Germany. 

#03 Spooky action BY Jenny Snaza
JULY 8-11, 2026

Spooky Action calls upon the history of labyrinths as well as their physical and metaphysical properties. Once a labyrinth is entered, the viewer must continue on a set path, relinquishing control and exercising trust in whatever/whoever laid the path ahead. There is a distinct beginning, middle, and end. The process of walking the labyrinth can be meditative and calming, or it can help us face thoughts and feelings that we have left untended. Often, it feels right to relinquish control and dedicate ourselves to a predetermined path. The middle space provides rest and the celebration of the destination. The exit reintegrates us into the outside world.

Jenny Snaza is a visual artist and educator based in Reno, Nevada. Her work explores themes of identity, motherhood, transience, and visibility. She creates bold mixed media wall sculptures and ceramic paintings that layer texture, color, and line to evoke the shifting complexity of the human experience. Through these works, the body emerges as both subject and metaphor — a vessel of memory, transformation, and resilience. She holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Visual Arts and French Language and Literature from Seattle University and a Master’s in Teaching Secondary Visual Art from Sierra Nevada University. Her work has been shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions. 

#04 A friendly meandering BY Kristin Hough, & Rodrigo Ormachea
JULY 17-18, 2026

In this two-person exhibition, artists and friends Kristin Hough and Rodrigo Ormachea focus on the hyper-local. This collaborative pair seeks to compare daily observations. Both spectacular and mundane, A Friendly Meandering highlights shared observations that examine being among and away from home, community, and shared experiences. 

Kristin Hough is an artist, educator, and curator working in the expanded field of painting. She graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of California, Davis, where she was awarded the Provost and Margrit Mondavi Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with recent solo shows at Stone House Art Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Burb Contemporary in Sacramento, California. She has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, and Hyperallergic, and published an artist book with National Monument Press. Hough is also a recent recipient of a Nevada Arts Council Project Grant. She is currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada.  

Rodrigo Omachea is a 4th-generation jeweler and interdisciplinary artist. His most recent work uses clay to create vessels that are shaped by his personal history, pulling from silhouettes that are at once familiar and forgotten. The resulting work becomes entangled in a dialog between the monolith, the artifact, and the body. Rodrigo resides in Ventura, California, with his son Sumaq, who helps to evoke earnest imagination.

#05 Panned-Opticon BY lukewärm
July 25-26, 2026

Present-day visual culture is defined by what is easily reproducible and shareable — memes, short-form videos, screenshots of Twitter hot takes, and slop (both AI and human-made). Consequently, it is nearly impossible to have a serious conversation about the state of our daily visual diet: it becomes “cringe” or “pretentious” to take these things seriously. Panned-Opticon is a multimedia exhibition that ponders the contemporary state of this popular visual culture and how it is filtered and enforced by our fragmented society. This exhibition seeks to dissect the ways in which we (often subconsciously but no less violently) enforce arbitrary codes of civility on each other and the media we consume. 

lukewärm (Luke Rizzotto) is a Reno-based multimedia artist, musician, designer, and educator whose practice examines memory, nostalgia, and yearning. He has taken an interest in how society engages in community online, and specifically, the emergence of a low-brow aesthetic as a means for genuine artmaking. He graduated in 2019 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a BFA and in 2024 from the University of Nevada, Reno with an MFA. He has recently exhibited through the Desert Biennial Project in Las Vegas, Nevada; Friends of Black Rock-High Rock in Gerlach, Nevada; Solarpunk Surf Club in Lexington, Kentucky; Plexus Projects in Brooklyn, New York; Le Germinal in Newport, Québec; and the Cookhouse Gallery at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, United Kingdom.

#06 color FOR Shade BY samantha buchanan
August 21-22, 2026

Color for Shade is a continuation of the project, […] To Be Invisible (spoken as “something to be invisible”), which Samantha Buchanan began at a residency at UNR’s Lake Tahoe campus. The project is a tribute to someone – or something – who kept the artist company throughout the residency. However, the artist doesn’t know this someone’s name, or, for that matter, if they even exist. It is difficult, after all, to bump into or chat with a disembodied acquaintance or possible ghost. Buchanan prints on screens due to their unique ability to be either an opaque or transparent substrate depending on variations in environmental context. This physical quality, in combination with the sequence and opacity of the added ink, allows the semitransparent mesh to materialize subtle shifts in light, shadow, and color. The screens then act as mediators between human perception and our environments, heightening our awareness of ambient conditions and often highlighting unseen spaces (some more wonderous than others). Given that so much of her work is about expanding sensory perception, it doesn’t seem that far-fetched for the artist to hang a show for a ghost.

Samantha Buchanan is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the perceptual complexities of light and color. She received a BA from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, and an MFA in Printmaking from Illinois State University. Buchanan has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in Expanding the Field: New Ideas in and Beyond Print, at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA, and in the solo exhibition, […] To Be Invisible at the Garage Door Gallery in Incline Village, NV. Her monotypes have been published in Maake Magazine and in the Anniversary Edition of Art Maze Magazine, and are part of several permanent collections, including the Limerick School of Art & Design, Limerick, IRE, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Originally from Chicago, Sam is currently enjoying the high-desert landscape of Reno, NV, where she teaches Printmaking, Visual Foundations, and Core Humanities at UNR.

#07 Party Line Seminar BY Rotary Club
October 3, 2026

Rotary Club’s work Party Line Seminar explores themes of communication, tele- and otherwise-surveillance, groupthink, mundane role-play, and, of course, imagination in a one-evening-only, interactive riddle-solving party. All spaces will be heavily surveilled using closed-circuit video equipment, and after the seminar closes, the footage will be edited together into an instructional music video for wider distribution.

Rotary Club makes music that circles, like a rotary dial, around the central, inescapable question of contemporary human existence: who’s on the line? As individuals, our diverse backgrounds in logistics, gaming, electronics, skateboarding, film, and music production uniquely position us to understand the hidden undercurrents of a world coerced into universal telecommunication. As a group, we find the most effective method of exploring these ideas is through various forms of play, from loud, aggressive, barely listenable music to more traditional media, like papier-mache or remote-control cars. The complexity of our broken modes of communication (don’t get us wrong – we know things are well beyond any hope of repair) demands a more ritualistic, even mystical approach. By summoning the ghosts of humanity’s discarded and dejected tools, tools that were once loaded with glowing dreams of a more perfect future, we hope to hear the echoes of incantations past, if only to find some joy in strange things that came and went before.

#07 a soft place to land BY Frank Fregoso-Gardner
october 16-17, 2026

Hope is necessary for decolonization, solidarity, resistance, and liberation. Like a quilt or a woven textile, hope is the sum of its parts, which are carefully collected by and shared between community members. Although hope itself is not a physical force in this world, it can be ignited in tangible, material ways within communities through art. a soft place to land is a pop-up exhibition that houses the communal construction and deconstruction of a collage-style quilt. 

Frank Fregoso-Gardner is a white, 27-year-old transmasc guy from Texas and Utah. His mixed-media collage style paintings unpack the perspective gained by being ousted from Mormonism as a trans person, and the ways his experience relates to, or is rooted in, the collective struggle to dismantle settler-colonial capitalism/fascism/imperialism. He has exhibited work in the Utah Pride Center, The Hive in Salt Lake City, Utah, and organized a solo exhibition in his parents’ basement before moving to Reno, Nevada. Frank has participated in a variety of markets such as the Murray Farmer’s Market and Pride Without Police in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as the Maker’s Paradise Maker’s Market and the Holland Project’s “Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here” show in Reno, Nevada. He graduated with a BFA in art history and anthropology, and plans on pursuing an MFA in studio art as well as a teaching career.