Annie Blazejack + Geddes Levenson
Feast of Endings
November 12 – December 18, 2026
Satchel Projects is delighted to present Feast of Endings, an exhibition of recent paintings by collaborative artist duo Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson, on view from November 12 through December 18, 2026. This will be their debut solo exhibition in New York City. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, November 12 from 6–8 PM.
Feast of Endings brings together a group of Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson’s recent oil and acrylic paintings, conjuring sites of encounter between humans and the natural world. In these works, nocturnal landscapes are populated by creatures and humans engaged in enigmatic interactions and activities. Women are physically engaged with the landscape, while animals watch from within dense undergrowth or gather around a decadent feast laid out in the woods. Muted, dusky, and black-on-black tones are punctuated by flashes of intense fluorescent color. The paintings are at once recognizable and strange, inviting viewers to look again as new relationships and possible outcomes emerge.
Blazejack and Levenson have been making paintings together for over a decade, developing a collaborative process that combines planning with improvisation. Working from sketches, photographs, and assembled compositions, they develop ideas that take shape in paint and often change direction along the way. Each artist takes turns working on a painting where the other has left off, responding to and sometimes revising what is already there. Their individual approaches remain in play, and the paintings become a record of their ongoing exchange.
The artists describe our current moment as one of “peak separation” between humans and nature, when the effort required to maintain the divide has become unsustainable and “eventually we will have to collapse back together.” Their paintings imagine what this convergence might look like, approaching an uncertain future through fantastical images and narratives that make the prospect of change less frightening.
Blazejack and Levenson approach the representation of women’s bodies and the wilderness as related subjects, both shaped by a history of looking and possession. Drawing on the visual language of painting across centuries, they revisit familiar motifs, such as the reclining nude and the voyeuristic gaze, while upending the conventions that have long characterized their depiction. Their reexamination of painting’s history resonates with their broader questioning of how humans regard and lay claim to the natural world. They also look to current painting, bringing their own ideas into conversation with the work of their contemporaries.
In Feast of Endings, impending collapse opens up the possibility of transformation. Blazejack and Levenson consider the fall of an empire and the end of a mindset organized around human dominion and the relentless consumption of nature. What might follow when that way of living can no longer be sustained? The artists suggest that extravagance might take a different form, like the extravagance of a tree shedding all of its leaves in autumn, year after year. An ending need not be only a loss; it may also make room for something not yet imagined.
Geddes Levenson and Annie Blazejack are collaborative painters living and working in Durham, NC. They have been creating and exhibiting work together for over a decade, exploring the relationship between humans and ecosystems as climate change becomes increasingly inevitable. Their exhibitions include solo presentations at the Vero Beach Museum of Art (Vero Beach, FL); Ortega Y Gasset Projects: The Skirt (Brooklyn, NY); Anchorlight (Raleigh, NC); The Carrack (Durham, NC); the Art and Culture Center (Hollywood, FL); and Placeholder Gallery (Miami, FL). They have also exhibited at the National Liberty Museum (Philadelphia, PA); the Contemporary Art Museum (Raleigh, NC); Locust Projects (Miami, FL); and First Street Gallery (New York, NY). Blazejack received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, and Levenson received her MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.