Circling In Situ

About the Exhibition

Circling In Situ contextualizes the work of eight New York area artists within their daily life, home, and logistical concerns. This is a multidisciplinary exhibition, locating each artist’s work within their own life and practice, with Circling’s essential focus on logistics and domestic spaces. One artist makes photographs in spare moments while receiving medical treatment, another turns his neighborhood into a painting studio; a third uses found objects from a family home to connect local and familial history with global struggle. 

This is the first exhibition organized by Circling Studios, an artist-run project which provides opportunities for artists to share not just their work but also what makes it possible: excavating the physical, financial, spiritual, and relational scaffolding that support each artist’s practice. Circling In Situ continues and expands this conversation with past Circling featured artists Marilyn Mitchell, Natalie Preston, Mona Saeed Kamal, Nicholas Thomson, and Sara J. Winston. 

There are as many ways to be an artist and sustain creative practice as there are people, and this collection of works showcases a diversity of not just subject matter and medium, but of the ways that the work comes into being. True to Circling’s ethos, a companion zine makes visible part of the constellation of objects, practices, and relationships that make these creations possible. While each artist works in their own medium and manner, this exhibition brings them together to highlight how the creative practice fits into the artist’s life.

Opening Night

Thursday, July 9, 6-9 PM

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Closing Reception

Friday, July 31, 7-10 PM

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Gallery Hours

Exhibition will remain on view all month and is viewable during allevents as part of the Circling Studios residency -

Additional viewings are available by appointment, please contact delightfactorynyc@gmail.com

About the Artists

Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell
Circling co-founder

Kystiana Kosobucki-Howell is a writer and textile artist, and half of Circling Studios. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from Indiana University and in Humanities from the University of Chicago. Professionally, she works in nonprofit data and development, helping organizations to increase their impact through data and storytelling. In her home studio, she designs quilts and garments with an emphasis on repurposed materials and experimentation. She is enthusiastic about the tradition of folk art. Krystiana also provides editorial services to writers under All Trades Editorial. She lives with her partner and dog. 

Website: Circling / All Trades Editorial / IG @krystianaspractice

Marilyn Mitchell

Featured in Circling Issue #33: Marilyn Mitchell doesn't do the ironing (March 2025) + featured speaker at Circling Studios’ event “Art x Embodiment: Creativity at Home in the Body” (May 2026)

Marilyn Mitchell was born in Queens, NY and was raised primarily on Long Island, NY. She attended SUNY New Paltz as a Fine Art major in the late 1970’s. Her professors encouraged everyone to ‘do your own thing’ and she decided she could do that while also doing good in the world. She dropped out of art school, changed her major and graduated on the Dean's Honor List from SUNY Stony Brook with a BS in Nursing. She eventually worked in medical ethics and has an MAS degree in Health Law from UCSD/CWSL. She has won recognition prizes and exhibited art nationally for decades.

She and her husband have lived in Paris, France, Los Angeles, CA, Urbana, IL, Boston, MA, Encinitas, CA and the Hudson Valley. She studied painting with Martin Lubner in Venice, CA and printmaking with Don Emery at Santa Monica City College.

Her work has ranged from interactive sculptures to monumental drawings/oil paintings and is strongly influenced by popular media. She is also a Certified Black Belt Nia Dance instructor.

Website: marilynmitchell.net // IG:@marilynxmitchell

Natalie Preston

Featured in Circling Issue #22: Natalie Preston cuts up her sketchbooks (May 2024)

Natalie Preston (b. 1998, Miami, FL) is a painter and multi-media artist. She graduated in 2020 from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, where she received her BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History. Preston had her first solo exhibition, The Darkest Valley, in March of 2020 at the MICA Gateway Gallery in Baltimore, MD. She has exhibited her work at Current Space Gallery in Baltimore, MD and VisArts in Rockville, MD. She has also shown in Miami, FL at the National Young Arts Foundation. She currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Website: natalie-preston.com  // IG: @nat_art_nat_art

Mona Saeed Kamal

Featured in Circling Issue #37: Mona Saeed Kamal finds treasures in an old house (June 2025)

Mona Saeed Kamal is a multi-media installation artist who creates narratives about migration, journeys, and identities. Through questioning religion, ethnicity, conflict and borders, she creates stories that directly confront her personal experiences and also the lives of people living in the many cultures and places that she has a connection to. Her origins are rooted in the Indian subcontinent and she has had a migratory upbringing—born in Algeria, raised in Canada and currently residing in New York. The materials and processes she uses are a means to build a dialogue on contemporary issues involving migration, religious interpretation, media biases, cultural practices, ethnicity and racial struggles.

IG: @monasaeedkamal 

Lynnette Therese Sauer
Circling co-founder

Lynnette Therese Sauer is a visual artist and cultural producer working at the intersection of contemplative and communal creative practices. She makes slow drawings and paintings, enacting habits of return and ritual through densely layered marks and imperfect patterns that accumulate over time. Lynnette’s work has been exhibited nationally and she has been awarded previous residencies at ChaNorth (Pine Plains, NY) and Jen Tough Gallery (Santa Fe, NM). 

In addition, she has ten years’ experience in event programming and production in NYC cultural institutions and now facilitates workshops independently, connecting people to art and one another. As co-founder of Circling Studios – a publication, artist collective, and event studio – she hosts gatherings, writes essays, and interviews artists about how, practically, they sustain their practices. Lynnette studied painting at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis, IN and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Website: lynnettetherese.com // IG: @lynnettetherese 

Nicholas Thomson

Featured in Circling Issue #36: Nicholas Thomson finds cat hairs in his paintings (May 2025)

Nicholas Thomson is a painter and writer from San Francisco. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their many cats.

Website: nicholasthomson.com // IG: @nt_paints

Sara J. Winston

Featured in Circling Issue #45: Sara J. Winston collects everything (February 2026)

Sara J. Winston is a photographer and writer based in New York. She produces photographs for books and exhibitions, she writes episodic creative-nonfiction, and makes hybrid image-text books that include both photographs and writing to describe and respond to chronic illness and its ongoing impact on the body, mind, family, and memory. She is the author of several books, both trade and special artist book editions, among them: Sugar Honey Iced Tea (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), Foibles & Avoidance (National Monument Press, 2024), A Lick and a Promise (Candor Arts, 2017), and Homesick (Zatara Press, 2015). She has four forthcoming book projects: a second edition of A Lick and A Promise to be released in 2026 from For the Birds Trapped in Airports in LA, CA; Too Visceral to be Intelligent, which will be released with 1080 Press of Kingston, NY in March of 2026; An Unfixed Pilgrimage, co-authored with Jared Ragland, to be published in the summer of 2026 by Composit Press, an imprint of Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR; and Infusion, forthcoming with Saint Lucy Books of Baltimore, MD in 2027.

Sara is Associate Director of the Photography Program at Bard College; and Co-Chair of the Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program; and a contributing writer at Collector Daily.

Website: sarajwinston.com // IG: @sarajwinston