Dawn Cerny, Steve Kado, Amanda Ross-Ho
July 11 – August 29, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11, 4 – 6pm

Veronica presents a group show of work by Dawn Cerny, Steve Kado and Amanda Ross-Ho.

Dawn Cerny's (b. 1979, Carpinteria, CA) sculptures and drawings begin with the notion that “furniture” and “mother” are figures that secure a value (to others) for their potential to hold, display, or be absent-mindedly left with things. Putting form and color to work and entrusting no small part to contingency, these works behave like gestural understudies for a play about the day-to-day grinding weariness and joyful slapstick absurdity of human relationships—about trying to Work It Out…or not. 
Cerny has had solo institutional exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum (2025); the Seattle Art Museum (2021); the Portland Art Museum (2017); and the Henry Art Gallery (2008 and 2017). Her sculptures, works on paper, and collaborative projects have been exhibited in institutions and galleries across, including AU_PASSAGE, Paris (2025); F Gallery, Houston (2022); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2018); and MOCA, Los Angeles (2018). She is the recipient the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2022); the Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship (2022); the Betty Bowen Award (2020); and of two Washington State Artist Fellowships (2004 + 2017). Cerny’s works on paper and sculptures are in public collections, including The Walker Art Gallery, SFMOMA, the Frye Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, and the Seattle Art Museum. Dawn Cerny’s work has been written about in Bomb Magazine, KQED, Artforum, the International Sculpture Center Blog, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Seattle Times. Cerny received an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2012.

Steve Kado is an artist, musician and writer from North York, Ontario. Having started out in the early 2000s working largely with chit-chat and public speaking he has largely moved on to repetitive sculpture at simultaneously architectural and microscopic scales. Steve is also very interested in photocopiers. He is a cofounder of the Los Angeles Woodwind Skill Share (LAWWSS) and has been performing drum machine solos internationally since 2010. He is also the host of "One Thing Radio" on KPBJ 95.9FM Shadow Hills, CA.

Amanda Ross-Ho is an interdisciplinary artist and a Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. Her work reshapes the complex collateral of time into experimental archives, monuments, and discursive tableaus. Selected solo exhibitions include ILY2, Portland, OR, Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Art, Birmingham, AL, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY, Bonner Kunstverein, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, The Approach, London, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Selected group exhibitions include Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Kunsthall, Stavanger, Norway, the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Slovenia, EXILE, Vienna, Austria, the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Public art commissions include Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Public Art Fund, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Art Production Fund. Recently, she was included in the Hammer Museum's 2025 Made in L.A. Biennial and published a 12-year career monograph GRAND GESTURES, published by the Vleeshal (Middleburg, Netherlands) and Inventory Press (Los Angeles). Currently, she is artist-in-residence at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, developing a new commissioned large-scale installation. Ross-Ho is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant (2025), the Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Award (2025); Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023); A California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2017); and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grant (2013). She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and MFA from University of Southern California Roski School of Art, Los Angeles (2006).