Logan Elise Crompton, Jocelyn Tsui, & Ryan Scails, 

5/9 - 6/13
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 9th, 6-9pm

Curated by Sean M. Starowitz 

︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2)

This May, FJORD is excited to announce XYZ Access, featuring work by Logan Elise Crompton, Jocelyn Tsui and Ryan Scails. This exhibition was curated by Sean M. Starowitz from the FJORD 2025 Open Call submissions and runs May 9th to June 13th 2026.

Taking inspiration from perforation logic and the doubling of perception, XYZ Access explores how we navigate boundaries between the body and the spaces it occupies within physical and digital realities. By employing the grid as a framework for recording the familiar, the artists reveal underlying patterns within our domestic and digital lives, suggesting that what often feels like chance is, in fact, deeply structural.

Distilling the complexities of 21st-century life into a series of coordinates through image, print and sculpture, XYZ Access invites viewers to look at their own surroundings with a renewed sense of curiosity. Compton utilizes grids as a primary tool for mapping and charting the recurring imagery of immediate life. Tsui's work investigates the geopolitical perforation of space and place, such as the infamous Kowloon Walled City. Scails’ work embodies thresholds in physical forms, interrogating access and the pursuit of empirical knowledge.

The community is invited for an opening reception Saturday May 9th from 6-9pm. FJORD is open 1-5pm on Saturdays and by appointment. To schedule an appointment please email fjord.curator@gmail.com.

About the Artists:

Logan Crompton [b. 2000, Kansas City, MO] is a Black, post-post-internet artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Logan, as an artist, is concerned with Black corporeal and immaterial realities, Black image and the internet, and protection and reclamation of said image. Logan considers the recurring throughlines of African spiritual systems of belief, and reappropriation and reclamation as it appears within their life and practice. Their work explores said themes through mythmaking, memes, magic, matrixes, algorithms, and repetition as mantra. Logan received their BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Painting and Art History and their MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. They were previously a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and an AXA art prize finalist. Logan currently works as a Teaching Artist, educating both at the university and elementary level at Temple University and Coco Academy respectively.

https://log3y.neocities.org/
 
Jocelyn Tsui (b. 2002, Hong Kong) is an artist and printmaker that explores the fluctuating dynamics of ‘print-as-body-as-machine’ as modular yet united forms. Through technologies of the press, the printer, the fold, the software, the knife, she pursues ways in which the terms of production and labor can be redefined through scale-shifts of time. Tsui has been an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute, In Cahoots Press, and Directangle Press and has exhibited in shows including at The National Arts Club, NY (2024), A.I.R. Gallery, NY (2025), 10 Chancery Lane, HK (2025), and FJORD Gallery, PA (2026). She completed her BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, and is currently an MFA in Painting / Printmaking candidate at Yale School of Art.

https://www.jocelynhyt.com/

Ryan Scails (b.1987) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Southwestern Connecticut. He received a BFA from Cooper Union and his MFA in Fibers & Material Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His most recent exhibitions include The Frequency at Brood Works (Brooklyn, NY), RAW at Eric Firestone Gallery (New York, NY), To Prepare A Place For You at Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia, PA), Martin's End at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA). Ryan has attended residencies at MASSMoCA, Textile Arts Center - Brooklyn, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry program.

https://www.ryanscails.com/