November 4, 2025 – January 10, 2026

In Metamorphosis, Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis recast familiar, static forms from antiquity in the soft, accessible material of paper pulp.  Through iteration and play, the artists re-collage and remix ancient myths and deities to craft a new, and newly strange, narrative space. Metamorphosis re-mystifies an academic collection of plaster casts—recording it while working to make it strange and new.  Transmuting the original pieces into paper renders them newly weightless, slightly unmoored from their original context—recast in a way that invites speculation and intervention.

About the Artists

Christopher Kardambikis explores space, process, and narrative through books, prints, and drawings. A bibliophile and zinester, Christopher founded Paper Cuts, a podcast and publishing platform that documents the contemporary world of zines and artist publications, as an excuse to talk to people about the books they make. He received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from the University of California, San Diego. In the fall of 2016, Christopher joined the faculty at George Mason University. In 2020, Christopher co-founded Cousins’ Books with his mother, Dr. Patricia Kardambikis. Cousins’ Books is a pop-up bookshop, housed inside the family’s Hot Dog Shop in New Castle, PA—a family business inside a family business, and his favorite ongoing project.

Jennifer Lillis is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, teacher, and administrator based in Northern Virginia. She received her MFA in Visual Art and Technology from George Mason University in 2019, and her BA in Studio Art from Marymount University in 2012. Jennifer is the Assistant Curator and Gallery Manager at the McLean Project for the Arts, teaches Printmaking at George Mason University, is co-producer of Paper Cuts, and founder of the print and book collective ELEMENTS.