What Remains Close, 2025

Rachel Hadari’s solo exhibition, What Remains Close, has officially closed after a five-week run at Cusp Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island. The show brought together a body of hand-built ceramic sculptures exploring connection, memory, and transformation themes. Each piece holds the quiet tenets of touch, stillness, and the spaces we hold between one another.

Throughout the exhibition, visitors responded with deep attentiveness. The show was warmly received and thoughtfully attended, with many describing the work as tender, contemplative, and deeply human.

One of the aspects the gallery cherished most about Hadari’s work was the invitation to touch and feel the pieces. These sculptures are meant to be experienced with the hands as much as with the eyes.

Hadari shares, “This body of work was born from a place of stillness and rebuilding. Each piece holds something of that process, the gentle weight of memory, the warmth of presence, and the beauty of what endures. I am incredibly grateful to Cusp Gallery for offering such a thoughtful and intimate space for the work, and to every person who paused, looked closely, and allowed themselves to feel with it.”

What Remains Close marked Hadari’s first solo exhibition and a meaningful milestone in her evolving practice. Though the show has ended, the work continues in memory, conversation, and the spaces where touch becomes language.