Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present No Coward Soul, a solo exhibition by Kansas City-based artist Rachel Gregor. Inspired by Emily Brontë’s 1846 poem No Coward Soul Is Mine, Rachel Gregor’s latest body of work explores faith without religion, resilience without certainty, and the fragile boundary between dread and hope.
The exhibition grew out of a long winter marked by personal loss, political anxiety, relentless storms and a pervasive sense of uncertainty. Outside her window at night was a dense blackness, which became the starting point for her latest body of work.
In a world that feels loud, fractured, and uncertain, No Coward Soul offers a moment to pause. The darkness is acknowledged, but so is the small, persistent light within it. Rather than declaring fearless conviction, Gregor paints from a place of vulnerability in an attempt find comfort in the shared experience of not having all the answers.
On View:
Saturday, March 7th to Saturday, March 31st
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 14th
5 pm - 7 pm
The artist will be in attendance.
No coward soul is mine
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere
I see Heaven's glories shine
And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear
O God within my breast
Almighty ever-present Deity
Life, that in me hast rest,
As I Undying Life, have power in Thee
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain,
Worthless as withered weeds
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by thy infinity,
So surely anchored on
The steadfast rock of Immortality