Join us for the closing open house of Lost in the Flood by DC based artist Noël Kassewitz.

Drawing upon her ocean-based upbringing and background in art conservation, Noël Kassewitz creates works that feel at once like wistful shrines and research laboratories, adapting materials into resilient forms for uncertain futures. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, she erodes the boundaries between disciplines to examine both the endurance and fragility of cultural memory in the face of rising environmental, social, and political pressures.

Lost in the Flood brings this practice to Asbury Park — a city that knows something about submersion and revival — where Kassewitz's work finds its most literal home. In collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), her series A(c)qua Alta tethers paintings to automated pulleys and winches that respond to live tidal data, raising and lowering in real time with nearby water levels. Alongside these kinetic works, The Raft of the Medusa — inspired by the city's own Medusa featured prominently on the historic Carousel Building — anchor the show in a longer history of survival, myth, and the wreckage we cling to. Together, the works ask what we carry forward and what we let the rising waters take.