Up The Down Staircase
The Stairwell Space
Bridgeport, Connecticut
October 2026

Set within the spiraling architecture of Stairwell Space, Up the Down Staircase brings together several artists whose works explore stairways, step stools, stoops, ladders, and fire escapes as sites of movement, transition, domestic life, and escape. These structures carry us toward something or away from something, marking moments of ascent, descent, uncertainty, and change. As viewers move through the exhibition along the building’s winding staircase, the experience mirrors the works themselves: a continual passage up, down, inward, and out.

Tania Alvarez

Isidro Blasco

Tom Sanford

Jenna Inzetta

Charlotte Lee

Kati Henning

Bill Miller

Natalya Khorover

Carlie Trosclair  

Baylee Schmitt

Andrius Alvarez-Backus

Kate Teale

Claudia Cortinez

Chris Daharsh