OLGA HIIVA: In the Shadow of Your Wings
BOB BECHTOL: Points Between

​September 18 – October 18, 2026​

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 5-7PM

​​The Wired Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions:

Olga Hiiva’s In the Shadow of Your Wings and Bob Bechtol’s Points Between opening Friday, September 18, with a reception from 5 to 7 PM.

In In the Shadow of Your Wings, Olga Hiiva paints portraits and figures on found textiles—tablecloths, bedspreads, garments, and other objects that carry traces of lives once lived. Drawing upon her Ingrian-Finnish family history, Hiiva explores memory, displacement, vulnerability, and generational trauma, transforming humble domestic fabrics into powerful vessels for stories of loss, survival, and hope.

In Points Between, Bob Bechtol creates mixed-media abstractions through a process of combining, dissecting, and reconfiguring forms. Working primarily with charcoal, collage, acrylic, and spray paint, Bechtol brings opposing visual elements into unexpected balance. Informed by philosophical and spiritual ideas about the unity of opposites, his paintings become meditations on tension, equilibrium, and the forces that shape the world around us.