Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
is proud to present...
The Hunters and The Dreamers
Zero Cents Solo Exhibition
For 300,000 years, we’ve remained more or less the same—Homo sapiens, a fragile little genus of hominin that somehow endured while others vanished. Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other mysterious, unnamed ancestors who left behind no names but traces in our DNA. These ancient relatives walked beside us, shaped us, and then
disappeared. Yet they still echo within us—fragments carried forward in our blood and our bones.
This exhibition is a meditation on those echoes. On what it means to be human, and when, if ever, that truly began. The first known gestures of expression date back nearly 170,000 years—was that the first flicker of something deeper? Were there rituals before that, tender or terrifying, that didn’t survive the sands of time? I like to imagine our extinct cousins. Were they kind? Did they love? Did they mourn their dead? I believe they did. And in that belief, I search for the thread that connects us all—the saints and the monsters, the hunters and the dreamers.
It’s the stories.
Every culture holds them. Some are etched in stone, others spoken in hush or song, carried like fire through generations. Stories of heroes and outcasts, of escape and survival, of crossing vast landscapes with a few loved ones and everything to lose. These stories repeat—not out of habit, but because they are built into us. Archetypes that emerge in every place, every age. The feast. The flight. The rebirth. The reckoning.
Through these paintings, I try to tap into that ancient current—the pulse of storytelling that predates language. I’m reaching for those moments that are always with us: the chase, the embrace, the sorrow, the communion. These scenes are unmoored from linear time. They drift between the past, the now, and the not-yet. Two sisters running through the forest—are they fleeing something ancient, or something imagined?
A boatman guides a soul across a threshold. Lovers hold each other as if it’s the first time and the last.
Boats appear floating in the void, carrying figures from one state of being to another. Not just a means of travel, but a symbol of transition, of surrender, of hope. Not everyone reaches the far shore. But those who do often return changed, and if they can, they pass on what they’ve learned to those still making their way.
This is a melancholic dance through time. A reflection of who we’ve been, who we are, and who we might become. It's about confronting what haunts us—not to destroy it, but to understand it. To tame it. To let it teach us something real. We are built from many pulses, stitched together by memory, rhythm, and myth.
Some of us walk in the light. Some live in the shadows. Often, we do both.
And that’s okay.
This is humanity.
About the Artist:
Zero Cents (aka Andrew Schetter) is an American-born artist who has spent the last twenty years working between the studio and the streets—creating paintings, murals, and site-specific installations. His work follows people—the dreamers, the doubters, the lovers, the lost—and tries to make sense of the mess and beauty they leave behind.
He’s drawn to the old rhythms that repeat through time: the way we gather, grieve, protect each other, run from danger, chase meaning. His paintings often brush up against memory, story, and myth—pulling from ancient echoes and everyday life to find something that sticks.
No grand conclusions, just people in motion—caught mid-thought, mid-dance, mid-fall.
Whether working on canvas or concrete, Zero Cents paints without judgment, recording what he sees with equal parts tenderness and grit. Since 2007, he’s shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including museums, galleries, and institutions.
The Hunters and The Dreamers is Zero Cent's fourth solo exhibition at ANNO DOMINI//the second coming of Art & Design.
Artist's reception: May2, 2024 5-9pm
Exhibition dates: May 2-June 21, 2025
Gallery hours:
Thursdays & *Fridays Noon–7pm, (*First Fridays 5-9pm)
Saturdays Noon–5pm
