Lump Gallery at Mills Gallery is excited to present OPPOSITES ATTRACT: A Duo Exhibition, featuring artists Genna Sweetnam and Liamel Cohen. The exhibition brings together two distinct painting practices that approach emotional experience from different directions.
Genna Sweetnam’s work explores subtle emotional states, the feelings that often live just beneath the surface.
Genna Sweetnam - Gently, Aimlessly Like Spring
In contrast, Liamel Cohen’s paintings engage more directly with lived experience, tension, and confrontation. Shown side by side, their work highlights that there is no single way to process what we feel.
Liamel Cohen - Copay 13
As emerging artists defining their own voices, both Sweetnam and Cohen bring vulnerability and seriousness of practice to their work. Together, their approaches create a visual dialogue between inner emotional worlds and external realities.
While not framed as a mental health exhibition, Opposites Attract reflects on emotional awareness and the unseen weight that shapes daily life, inviting viewers to recognize parts of themselves within this spectrum.
This exhibition is curated by Ambar Santiago.
Please join us for the free Opening Reception on Thursday, March 12th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. at Mills Gallery.
Mills Gallery Arts & Multicultural Foundation
1650 N Mills Ave
Orlando, FL 32803
https://millsgalleryorlando.com/
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