June Barn Door Gallery 2026

Seven Moons From Jupiter

Jupiter Ariel, aka Lex Grotesque

June 5- June 26

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Opening Reception on Arts Night Out

Jupiter Ariel, aka Lex Grotesque, sees themselves as a collective system rather than a single individual. Through parts work (Internal Family Systems therapy) and a range of internal and spiritual healing practices, Jupiter has created these artworks, each emerging from distinct states of consciousness. This exhibit represents a decade-long collaboration within their shared system and features contributions from their youngest part, a 7-year-old girl named Seven. The collection was born from an ongoing emotional, spiritual, and healing journey—marked by character development through performance art, fostering community, and, most importantly, cultivating a strong sense of self. These artworks serve as portals into the ongoing process of healing different parts (personalities) that have emerged over the years.

Meet some of the identities in the Jupiter Ariel system:

Andromeda, a twenty-something-year-old female with the energy and tenacity of a teenager.

IO, a queer, flamboyant but shy male whose age is not yet clear.

Most importantly, the youngest of Jupiter's parts, Seven. Seven is a child who was originally identified by Jupiter via their therapist back in 2012. Seven has ranged in age from 5 years old at times and othretimes more like an 8 or 9 years old.

The work is ongoing because living with complex trauma and Dissociative Identity Disorder does not have to destroy or damage lives, but can be understood as one result of childhood trauma bestowed upon the most resilient of people. To manifest beautiful things from some of the darkest of experiences.

• Lex Grotesque

  Jupiter Ariel, aka  Lex Grotesque (they/them), is a BIPOC educator and activist dedicated to building community through interactive healing theater and queer burlesque in Western Massachusetts. Focused on raising awareness, dismantling oppressive systems, empowering marginalized voices, and fostering relational change. Uses diverse mediums such as pen & ink, acrylics, and textiles to create art reflecting personal journey with parts work (Internal Family Systems) and collage art. These creations aim to promote queer liberation and support social change through art and activism.

  IG@jupiterreturned

September Barn Door Gallery 2026

Please Return To:

Sophia Jakobson

September 5 - September 26

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Opening Reception on Arts Night Out

In Please Return To:, I draw from landscapes that have shaped me, using the body and landscape as orientation devices to explore my experience occupying a queer body. The work serves as an archive– of the ever evolving effort to find home in my body, of the people and places that have held me, and the grief and joy of growing more fully into myself. In queering the landscape, the work asks for the viewer to engage their own body in space, drawing attention to how we construct naturalness and how these embedded assumptions construct possibilities for how bodies should appear and behave.

• Sophia Jakobson

  Sophia Jakobson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Their artwork is shaped by the landscapes they’ve lived in: Western Massachusetts, suburban New York, and the Swedish archipelago. Through mixed media paintings, sculpture, and textiles, Sophia explores themes of inhabitance: in a place, a body, in community, and queerness. In 2025, Sophia graduated from Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar, where they double majored in art studio and sociology. Jakobson’s work has been shown throughout the Northeast. They have been awarded the 2025 Ruth E. Warfel Art Prize, The 2025 Leonard DeLonga Prize, and the 2024 Quabbin Arts Association Emerging Artist Scholarship. 

  IG@fiajak

  www.sophiajakobson.com