Feeding Our Demons

This group exhibition explores political, cultural, and environmental issues through storytelling, featuring works by Spanish artist Eva Davidova.

Feeding Our Demons is a group exhibition curated by Hovey Brock, featuring works by Eva Davidova, Sarah Grass, Alexandra Hammond, Abigail Simon, and Marina Zurkow. The artists in this exhibition explore political, economic, and cultural issues through storytelling and character-driven narratives.

Eva Davidova’s virtual reality pieces and videos immerse viewers in dynamic, vertiginous environments viewed through the eyes of mythic figures. Sarah Grass presents line drawings depicting the adventures of a magical dachshund undergoing radical transformations. Alexandra Hammond creates painted sentient landscapes that reflect emotional and psychological states. Abigail Simon and Marina Zurkow collaborate on The Iceberg, a tarot-inspired deck of images designed to prompt players to explore new perspectives and strategies related to climate change. Collectively, these works resonate with a contemplative approach developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, known as “Feeding Your Demons.”

According to Lama Tsultrim, in addition to personal demons, there are “outer demons” that feed on collective ignorance, greed, and anger. These external forces are addressed in the works of Davidova, Grass, Hammond, Simon, and Zurkow. Their representations of gods, demons, cultural obsessions, and societal challenges invite viewers to engage with the communal struggles that shape our world. The exhibition asks: What does it feel like, physically and emotionally, to witness crises such as natural disasters, political violence, or climate change? How might engaging our bodies —our skin, muscles, and emotions— alongside our intellects lead to new insights and directions in addressing these global issues?

Eva Davidova

Eva Davidova is an interdisciplinary artist with focus on new media(s). Her work addresses ecological disaster, interdependency, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. She questions what we give for granted, and explores possibilities for agency through uncertainty and play. Davidova often deliberately “misuses” technology in order to disturb its acceptance, and that of the prevalent emotional manipulation that both physical and informational architecture exert.

Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Everson Museum, the Albright Knox Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, Instituto Cervantes and La Regenta among others.

Sarah Grass

Sarah Grass is a Chilean-American artist and educator working in New York, NY. She uses visual metaphor to render complexities of the psyche in drawing. Disarming symbols carry the weight of personal/collective anxieties related to trauma and grief, displaced identity in diaspora lineage, masculine/feminine polarity, non-binary states of being, and the weakened feminine principle in systems of masculine dominance.

Sarah founded The Pack in January 2021 to share her creative process and research in the form of a school. The Pack is a blend of her studio practice and teaching philosophy: drawing as a processing tool for self actualization, and communal research and accountability to harness the power of collective growth. The Pack is a wilderness for conception and creation, for artists’ inquiry rather than artists’ statements. It is open to anyone who identifies as an artist, as well as those who feel they might.

Alexandra Hammond

Alexandra Hammond is a transdisciplinary land artist originally from the rural foothills of California’s Coast Range, now based in New York City. Working across painting, film, installation, and interactive media, Hammond’s practice challenges traditional boundaries such as human vs. nature, background vs. foreground, and individual vs. ecosystem. By acknowledging the agency of all beings and materials, her work seeks to transform extractive capitalist systems into sustainable structures that support the interconnectedness of life. Operating within the realm of symbolic possibility, Hammond explores how symbols shape individual and collective experiences, bridging language and embodied knowledge.

In addition to her artistic practice, Hammond is part of the artist board of Beverly’s, a global art platform based in Manhattan, and serves as creative director of Alexandra Hammond Studio, LLC, a communications design agency.

Abigail Simon

Abigail Simon is an artist whose work employs a variety of strategies and materials to explore social and aesthetic research. Her portraits, videos, and installations have been exhibited internationally across four continents, and her commercial work has been published and distributed globally for over 20 years.

Simon attended Sarah Lawrence College and earned an MFA from the ICP/Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies. She has taught critical theory and creative practices at institutions such as Pratt Institute, the ITP at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, and the General Studies Program at ICP. In 2009, Simon led animation workshops at Eyebeam as part of the Youth Drop-in Program, where she taught students to create animations using Scratch and Adobe CS, and how to design and transform characters.

Marina Zurkow

Marina Zurkow is a media artist who explores the tensions between nature and culture, and the environmental challenges facing the world. Through research, speculation, and technology, she fosters intimate connections across species and geophysical contexts. Zurkow is a founding member of collaborative initiatives such as More&More (Investing in Futures), Dear Climate, and Climoji.

Her most recent solo exhibition, Parting Worlds, including the Hyundai Terrace Commission at the Whitney Museum of American Art, opened in April 2025. Other recent exhibitions include WHAT IF? at MoMA’s Creativity Lab, Antroposcenes at Lo Pati Centre d’Art, The Breath Eaters at the Wolfsonian Museum, Underfoot/Overhead at Wasserman Projects, and Can the Substrate Speak? at Festival Art Souterrain. Zurkow was a 2022 fellow at the Environmental Media Lab at Princeton University and has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rice University, NYFA, NYSCA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley, New York, and teaches at NYU.