DF5
The First Five Years
Oct 9, 2026
About the Exhibition
DF5: The First Five Years brings together and celebrates every artist who has shown at Delight Factory. The works on view, most of them new and some familiar, move between earth and sky. Kate Raudenbush's Oculus Root, the portal at the heart of the space, traces that path in steel: roots modeled on mycelium and mangroves, an eye for intuition, wings about to take flight. Much of the show stays close to the ground, made by hand from materials that have lived a life before: reclaimed yarn, a canoe paddle carved with a graffiti writer's blessing, a hood ornament found on a long walk. Some works call on sounds of the everyday, and some repeat a simple gesture until a pattern emerges. Others reach upward or radiate moving light that is never the same twice. Between earth and sky lies the potential of the personal, and the wish carved into the paddle: Stay up.
Opening Night
7:00 PM: Exhibition Opening
8:45 PM: Birthday Blessing and Toast by Catherine Burns
9:00 PM: Dance Party with DJ Gabriel
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Gallery Opening Hours
During regular event hours and by appointment.
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About the Artists
Charles Eladio Beronio DF exhibition | Artist Website | IG |
Ezekiel Honig DF exhibition | Artist Website | IG
Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell DF Circling exhibition | Circling Website | IG Circling | IG
Jason Nunes aka Bearded Twin DF exhibition | Artist Website | IG
Joshue Ott DF exhibition | Artist Website | IG
Todd Polenberg DF installations Vibe Check and Annelid | Artist Website | IG
Sarah Porter DF exhibitions Séance, 2024 and The Buried Sun, 2026 | IG
Kate Raudenbush DF exhibition and installations | Artist Website | IG
Lynnette Therese Sauer DF Circling exhibition | Circling Website | IG Cirlcing | IG
Works
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Stay Up
Charles Eladio Beronio, 2023
Wood paddle with carved and burned text
6 x 71 x 1”
Private collection, Brooklyn NY$950, unique multiple, upon request
This is a common vernacular/slang expression that is often spoken as a salutation upon one’s departure. It is said to originate as a term of encouragement amongst graffiti writers for their work to have a lasting presence before being buffed and painted over. My version as it is carved in a canoe paddle is hopeful and optimistic, perhaps a wish to keep one’s “head above water.” Stay up is also reminiscent of “Stay Gold” spoken amongst the characters in the film and book The Outsiders.
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Bumping Into a Chair While Humming
Ezekiel Honig, 2026
Printed canvas stretched on wood
24 x 24”$3,000
Bumping Into a Chair While Humming: Sounds of the Everyday, Listening, and the Potential of the Personal
This piece is a redesign, reformatting, recontextualization, of the book of the same title, which explores the sonic potential in everyday objects, spaces, and interactions. There is a focus on how to create a personal soundscape by listening differently, and searching for, and creating, sound in one’s immediate environment that resonates with the individual.
This piece is the entire text, printed on 24" x 24" canvas. Rather than an object that can be held and experienced in different spaces and moments, this version can be fixated on a wall, and experienced in a different way, over a longer period of time.
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Welcome In (I)
Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell, 2025
Repurposed acrylic yarn
9 × 11”$300
As a textile artist interested in reclaiming and repurposing existing materials, Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell plays with the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional work and the purpose of objects, making visual art out of yarn originally used for garments, or garments out of textiles originally used for housewares. In this piece, Krystiana uses antique and reclaimed acrylic yarn to show the material itself as a potentially beautiful object. Some of the yarn contains color irregularities which highlight how this material has lived a life before this one – repurposing these materials extends their lifespan and honors objects and processes that are not historically included in fine art.
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Welcome In (II)
Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell, 2025
Repurposed acrylic and cotton yarn
9 × 11”$300
As a textile artist interested in reclaiming and repurposing existing materials, Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell plays with the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional work and the purpose of objects, making visual art out of yarn originally used for garments, or garments out of textiles originally used for housewares. In this piece, Krystiana uses antique and reclaimed acrylic and cotton yarn to show the material itself as a potentially beautiful object. Some of the yarn contains color irregularities which highlight how this material has lived a life before this one – repurposing these materials extends their lifespan and honors objects and processes that are not historically included in fine art.
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Theories of Intimacy
Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell and Lynnette Therese Sauer (Circling Studios), 2026
Acrylic, ink, and cotton thread on paper
16 x 11.5” (matted, framed 24 x 18”)$600
In this mixed media piece, Lynnette Therese Sauer and Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell combine their respective practices through a process of layering Lynnette’s drawings and paintings together into a collage and then integrating Krystiana’s stitchwork. As longtime friends and collaborators, it has long been part of Lynnette and Krystiana’s vision to make more physical work together – living in different places, the artists completed this work long-distance, mailing it back and forth in a shipping tube to prepare it for exhibition. In both symbol and in process, Theories of Intimacy explores the ways that each of us, our artistic sensibilities, inspirations, and outputs are shaped and transformed through the portal of relationship.
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Taking Flight
Jason Nunes, 2026
Microphone, mic stand, found hood ornament, chrome paint
15 x 6 x 6”$750
My art practice is part assemblage, part scavenger. I build from things found on long walks, with a little leftover instinct from my years as a prop maker on 90’s straight-to-video horror films. Mostly, I mess around until I find out what I'm making.
Taking Flight is a ritual object for sound journeys: a microphone fitted with wings I found on one of those walks. It's an instrument for calling something down, or sending something up. -

2026.09.19-1303 Score C 31:29-34:18
Joshue Ott, 2026
Interlaced pigment print on backlight film, acrylic lenticular lens, LED lightbox
48 x 17”$8,586.25
This score is a record of drawings, gestures, and movements made during a live session with superDraw, a software instrument the artist has performed with and refined for over 20 years. Ott’s scores, which are part of a series, are descriptive rather than prescriptive: they are records of a performance rather than a blueprint for creating one.
superDraw is built around the idea that a hand-drawn line can generate animation and sound: gestural movement and mark making forming a temporal narrative, conveying meaning from the interplay between light and sound in space and time. Its output is inherently fleeting: video and sound, with no lasting record or object. A lenticular lens holds animation within a still physical object, creating something that moves without moving and translating the original performance into something new.
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Vibe Check
Todd Polenberg, 2023
Audiovisual installation
LEDs, computer, control systems, speakers, knob
Site-specific installationNot for sale
Vibe Check is an interactive audiovisual environment that explores the use of synchronized light and sound to create a visceral psychedelic environment.
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Annelid
Todd Polenberg, 2022
LEDs, control system
Site-specific installationNot for sale
Annelid (2022) is a light-based artwork, a fully algorithmic meditation, and a loamy translation of the organic into the digital. As each moving lightform is birthed, given a lifespan, form, and behavior, and then disperses, it never repeats, generating a parametric infinity of motion.
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Thicket
Sarah Porter, 2026
Collage, photo transfer, watercolor, acrylics, and special-effects acrylics on tinted paper
18 x 24”$1,200
A crowd with distorted faces—pleated in on themselves—gazes up at a world which exceeds their comprehension while still holding them enmeshed. They appear alienated from the larger realms of being by the solipsism of human concerns, but they are still yearning for reunion. Red lines of connection tumble from the sky: the thicket that entangles all living beings.
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Out of Darkness
Kate Raudenbush, 2025 and 2026
Mixed media
28.5 × 52.5”$4,320
Out of Darkness began in Raudenbush's studio after January 20, 2025, when she sensed chaos and dread building across the country, along with the courage and resolve many people were finding in response. She made the totem as a personal reminder to hold onto her inner light and stay on a path of integrity, whatever comes. Its circles follow the Fibonacci sequence, the pattern behind the evolution of life, and a reflective white line runs through them, literally catching light in the darkness.
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Oculus Root
Kate Raudenbush, 2021
Laser-cut steel, LEDs
Site-specific installationNot for sale
Kate Raudenbush's first indoor installation depicts an altered state of mind grounded in nature and inner knowing. Read from left to right, it begins with roots inspired by mycelium networks and mangroves, the coastal trees that hold soil and shoreline together and shield communities from storms. Here, at Delight Factory, they stand for rooting into dance, music, and community. The eye at the center represents instinct, intuition, and guidance. From there the form opens into wings, as if about to take flight. The work mirrors the space’s purpose as a place of exploration and seeking, a place to get lost and found, and as a portal it builds anticipation for what waits on the other side.
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Garden of Delight
Kate Raudenbush, 2021
Laser-cut steel, LEDs
Site-specific installationNot for sale
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Untitled (layered meditation)
Lynnette Therese Sauer, 2022
Colored pencil and ink on paper
30 × 44“$2,500
Lynnette Therese Sauer makes slow, pattern-based drawings that retain the imperfections and rhythm of a handmade object. Serving as both records of devotional practice and practical tools of contemplation in their own right, each work is evidence of duration and the density that builds with recurrence. Created years apart but presented together for this exhibition, Untitled (layered meditation) and Summer Trio act out the patterns of returning and observation which are inherent in all contemplative practices. Whether to a sacred text, the sink full of dishes, one’s diary, or the ever-changing present moment, meaning accrues and deepens through this ritual of coming back over time. Each drawing in Lynnette's broader practice documents instances of return to attention – some sustained, some brief – and invites viewers to do the same.
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Summer Trio
Lynnette Therese Sauer, 2026
Acrylic on panel
3 panels, each 10 x 8”$900
Lynnette Therese Sauer makes slow, pattern-based drawings that retain the imperfections and rhythm of a handmade object. Serving as both records of devotional practice and practical tools of contemplation in their own right, each work is evidence of duration and the density that builds with recurrence. Created years apart but presented together for this exhibition, Untitled (layered meditation) and Summer Trio act out the patterns of returning and observation which are inherent in all contemplative practices. Whether to a sacred text, the sink full of dishes, one’s diary, or the ever-changing present moment, meaning accrues and deepens through this ritual of coming back over time. Each drawing in Lynnette's broader practice documents instances of return to attention – some sustained, some brief – and invites viewers to do the same.
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