A SPARK OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Healing the soul
A SPARK OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Healing the Soul is Transformer’s 2026 fall exhibition and the first solo presentation by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Laurence Elle Groux. Presented through Transformer’s cultural partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States, the exhibition combines Groux’s stoneware ceramic sculptures with oil pastel etchings that explore emotional and spiritual experiences, including introspection, love, hate, wisdom, awakening, hope, and fear.
Groux’s work gives physical form to experiences that are difficult to express in words. Drawing on ancient hieroglyphs, sacred symbols, mythology, Renaissance art, Modernism, and Outsider Art, she investigates healing, transformation, and the search for meaning. The exhibition brings together her sculpture and drawing for the first time, inviting visitors to reflect on their own inner lives.
When: October 10 through December 5, 2026.
Showtimes: The exhibition’s listed public hours are not provided. A Community Open House Reception is scheduled for Saturday, October 10, from 12–6 PM. A Visionary Leaders Circle Exhibition Preview takes place Friday, October 9, from 5–7 PM.
Exhibition programming: FRAMEWORK 40, a conversation with Laurence Elle Groux and Victoria Reis, is scheduled for Thursday, October 8, at Ned’s Club. The page also lists the October 9 preview and October 10 community reception as exhibition-related events.
Artist: Laurence Elle Groux is a self-taught, introspective artist who works in stoneware ceramics and oil pastel etching. Born and raised in a small Swiss village, she moved to the United States in 1996 and has lived and worked in New York City since then. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Switzerland, and Philadelphia, and is held in collections in Pennsylvania, New York, California, Switzerland, Canada, and Mexico. Her work has also been chosen for separate Greenwich Art Society group exhibitions by curatorial staff from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Background: Groux began her Healing Circles oil pastel etchings in 2018, following a serious physical injury that kept her from moving her neck or making art for nearly a year. The small drawings became part of her gradual physical and creative recovery. In 2020, her sculpture Becoming led to the works Hope and Fear, through which she explored opposing emotions in abstract form. This inquiry developed into her ongoing Abstract Nouns series, which includes works addressing concepts such as Love, Hate, Solace, and Innocence.
Themes: After being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in 2022, Groux deepened her exploration of pain, stillness, uncertainty, presence, and creativity. The exhibition presents her art as both a personal healing process and an invitation for viewers to find reflection and hope within their own experiences.
Venue: Transformer.
Presented by: Transformer, in cultural partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States.
Tickets: Price not available.