“There's a ribbon in the sky for our love” - Stevie Wonder
Feia is proud to present Lemniscatus, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s Los Angeles space, featuring new works by Casey Baden and Nicholas Bono Kennedy. Opening on May 30th, the exhibition takes its title from the Latin lemniscatus, meaning “decorated with ribbons” or “twined with bands,” a root later associated with the lemniscate - the symbol of infinity. Throughout the exhibition, the ribbon emerges as both material and metaphor: a connective form that binds narrative to space, memory to perception, and two distinct artistic practices into continuous dialogue.
Married and working from a shared studio, Baden and Kennedy occupy parallel creative worlds that remain deeply intertwined. Their practices unfold independently yet in constant proximity, shaped by ongoing exchange, observation, and mutual influence. Lemniscatus reflects this condition of closeness, revealing the invisible threads that connect separate sensibilities while allowing each to retain its own rhythm and language.
Casey Baden’s work draws from mythology, archetype, and narrative construction, creating paintings and forms that feel suspended between ancient memory and contemporary imagination. Her compositions suggest fragments of stories without fixed beginnings or endings, where symbols recur and transform across complex and multi-layered surfaces. Baden approaches mythology as a living structure rather than a static history, through which personal and collective experience can be continuously rewritten. In her work, the ribbon becomes a narrative device winding through time.
Nicholas Bono Kennedy’s practice centers on light, atmosphere, and the emotional architecture of domestic space. His works transform familiar interiors into meditative environments charged with psychological presence. Through subtle tonal shifts, spatial ambiguity, and moments of strangeness, Kennedy traces the ephemeral movement of light across rooms and surfaces, revealing the intimacy and instability embedded within everyday environments. The ribbon appears here as something immaterial, a line of illumination, a passage through space, or a lingering connection between presence and absence.
Together, Baden and Kennedy construct an exhibition rooted in continuity, reciprocity, and return. Lemniscatus considers how lives, spaces, and creative practices become entwined over time by looping back on themselves while continuously evolving. The exhibition examines the ribbon not simply as adornment, but as a structure of attachment and a form capable of carrying stories, relationships, and acts of looking across terrains.
As the inaugural exhibition at Feia Gallery, Lemniscatus reflects the Feia’s commitment to presenting contemporary practices that foreground material sensitivity, conceptual depth, and intimate dialogue between artists. Casey Baden
Casey Baden is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she completed her BFA at New York University, 2014, and her MFA at California Institute of the Arts, 2020. Baden’s practice explores relationships and materials between textiles and painting, including natural dye, acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting, weaving, sewing, embroidery, and installation. She has been awarded residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, The Reef, AZ West, Textile Art Center NY, PADA Studios, The Plum Lime Residency NY, and JO-HS artist in residence, CDMX. She has exhibited works in the US and Europe, with recent exhibitions at V1 Gallery (Copenhagen), Feia, La Loma Projects, The Middle Room Gallery, The MAK Center, and Quarters Gallery, among others.
Nicholas Bono Kennedy is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work explores the emotional and psychological resonance of the lived environment. Drawing from a decade-long career in animation, where he specialized in background painting, Kennedy brings a cinematic sensitivity to atmosphere, space, and narrative in his contemporary practice. Formally trained in Illustration, Kennedy initially developed his artistic foundation through plein-air and still life painting. In 2020, he pivoted toward more ambitious, large-scale compositions, an experimental shift that allowed for a decisive break from his commercial practice. This transition catalyzed his full-time commitment to painting, allowing for a growing presence in the contemporary art world through regular exhibition showings both in the US and abroad.