Exhibitions

IVY GUILD: DRIFTLESS

Neue Welt / 507 Hagan St. , Studio C January 3, 2026 - February 1, 2026

Ivy Guild

Neue Welt is pleased to present Ivy Guild: Driftless.

Driftless 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 and crip theory.

The works 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 cholla skeletons, insect egg sacs and cocoons, reefs, and human detritus. Outwardly, the 2D mixed media works process external environments from the artist’s fluctuating mental and physical states. These works signal 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, becoming driftless.

Ivy Guild is a Reno, NV-based interdisciplinary artist and educator invested in researching present and post-Anthropocene worlds to illuminate the non-human life of speculative environments in a human-centric world. She immerses herself in queer ecologies of intimacy and survival, investigating environmental justice in anthropomorphic vignettes.

Guild channels her medical history, queer identity, and solastalgia into her artwork. She immerses herself in queer, crip ecologies of a post-human world, searching for environmental justice in anthropomorphic vignettes. Environmental concerns propel her to shape sanctuaries and evolved beings that thrive amidst human detritus. Guild considers herself amoebic in her continuous adoption of new art mediums, often hybridizing analog and digital practices. She has a penchant for collecting remnants and scavenging raw materials. By anthropomorphizing the speculative creatures of environments yet to come, Guild hopes to engender empathy for the natural world.

Ivy Guild is an Assistant Teaching Professor and area head for Visual Foundations in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2021, Guild received her MFA in Art from the University of California, Irvine and was awarded the Ecosystem X Future Art Award from Mozaik Philanthropy in Los Angeles.