Neal Galloway: Tin Can Conversations

October 18 – December 20, 2025 in the Project Gallery

Artist Talk: TBD

Tin Can Conversations uses the core motif of a tin can telephone to explore the fragility, complexity, and profound value of interpersonal communication. A series of sculptures and time-based artworks explore physical and psychological distance, miscommunication, disagreement, sensitivity, power dynamics, love, and connection. Inspired by a difficult cross-country displacement, and by the challenge of maintaining healthy relationships during the COVID pandemic, Galloway uses unconventional materials in his artworks to connect with audiences, while pushing those materials to overcome their humble origins.

Neal Galloway is an artist and educator from Flagstaff Arizona serving as the Associate Director and an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Art + Design at Northern Arizona University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in 3D and Extended Media from the University of Arizona as well as a bachelor’s degree in both Art and Music from the University of Tulsa. Galloway has been teaching college-level art courses for more than 14 years and has exhibited artwork at a wide range of venues across the U.S. Through the re-appropriation of discarded materials into art objects that reference and incorporate the natural world, Galloway most often explores our relationship to nature, waste, consumption, materiality, and our emotional connection to objects and the natural environment. These works take a variety of forms including sculptures, installations, environmental artworks, paintings, photographs, performances, and videos.

Splintered Symbiosis, 54x36x36in and 27.5x20x18in paired, dimensions variable, Tin cans, wood, brass, steel, string, 2025