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Category: Micro Gallery

Micro Gallery

Objects of Contemplation

April 20, 2026April 25, 2026 Vanessa Able

Loretta Staples' series of artworks created at a Zen center are filled with mysterious resonance and connection.

Tagged art, connection, contemplation, drawing, meaning, Meditation, painting, ZenLeave a comment
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The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave a comment
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For I Was

March 8, 2025March 8, 2025 Vanessa Able

Lua Kobayashi's exploration of the Japanese-American experience, captured through personal narratives and treasured belongings.

Tagged community, family, hapa, history, incarceration, issei, Japan, Japanese Culture, Japanese-American, narrative, personal, sansei, war, yonsei1 Comment
Herd Everything
Micro Gallery

Suburban Primitive Paintings

January 20, 2025January 21, 2025 Vanessa Able

Ronald Walker's vibrant paintings are a journey into the surreal world of incongruent thoughts and the image patterns that bring them together.

Tagged color, emotional, paint, primitive, psychological, suburbs, visual thinkingLeave a comment
Nocturne by Harry Bauld
Micro Gallery

The Pitch of Color

November 22, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

Harry Bauld's thick, colorful canvases are intensely observed landscape paintings of the natural spaces and hues in New York and Connecticut.

Tagged color, dawn, jazz, landscape, nature, nocturne, paint, pitch, surface, van goghLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Osteoborg

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 Vanessa Able

Andrew Nelson's fantastical drawings show us a distant future inhabited by living bone robots that are part-organic and part-machine.

Tagged bones, drawing, dystopia, environment, future, landscape, robots, surrealLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Adam Powers – Relative

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

Adam Powers' understated photographs draw out beauty from the forgotten corners of urban and commercial landscapes.

Tagged beauty, everyday, mundane, ordinary, photography, urban landscapeLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Tamerlie Philippe – Fading Memories

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by memories from her country of origin, Haiti, Tamerlie Philippe's faceless paintings are an ambivalent, diminishing recollection of home.

Tagged childhood, faces, fading, Haiti, impermanence, memory, painting, transience1 Comment
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Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his collaged paintings, Jacob Lehmann explores the relationships between isolation and nostalgia, in connection to childhood.

Tagged childhood, collage, isolation, landscape, nostalgia, painting1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Gabriela De Paz – Enredadera

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gabriela De Paz's flower paintings are portraits of emotions and a homage to the perpetual flux of the human condition.

Tagged color, emotion, flowers, memory, nature, painting, portraitsLeave a comment

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