From Light, We Emerge - Last Call on Artsy, continues online at Vessel-Gallery.com

March 1 - April 14, 2024 ends on Artsy, ongoing at Vessel-Gallery
https://www.vessel-gallery.com/from-light-we-merge/

FROM LIGHT, WE EMERGE is a group show looking at the crucial effect of light on our being. Light's behavior, such as passing through, reflecting, refracting, moving, or distorting, affects us through its reliability, its radiance, and steadfast powers to illuminate.

Featuring Artists: Cheryl Calleri, Carol Dalton, Irene Imfeld, and Hyeyoung Kim

Today, our social reckonings reveal a history of intersections, past and present - we find ourselves in dire need to share complete stories to bring enlightened awareness. The vehicle of light is a much needed tool during such times. Here is an exhibition of hope and the reliability of light.

Is our understanding of light programmed in our DNA? It is without a doubt our understanding of its presence that is the constant, by the cyclical behavior of the sun always rising, always setting. Sunlight, known by humans from the beginning of our existence, demonstrates emergence from darkness. 'In the midst of darkness, light persists.' Our dependance on light to heal, to illuminate, and to sustain us, is as radiant medicine. Supporting all aspects of life such as food production, thriving water ways, power, warmth, and comfort, it also signals itself in its influence on daily routine, something we may likely take for granted but is integral to our existence. There is tremendous power and reliance on this element. When feeling low, the light can heal and uplift our spirits. The light of the sun grows our food. Scholars bring light to new facts. We shut the lights off at the end of a long day, mimicking the earth's rotation, and our ongoing relationship to light. "From Light, We Emerge" celebrates and investigates the luminous works of Cheryl Calleri, Carol Dalton, Irene Imfeld, and Heyoung Kim.

Artist Cheryl Calleri documents voyages of her explorations, capturing and revealing abstractions of the wonders of light suspended in air not often seen. She approaches light as primary medium and offers viewers a chance to be affected by its mysterious manners - creating opportunities to be transformed by the reflection of light in spaces both defined and experimental. Hyeyong Kim assembles self-portraits emerging from a deep, rich, dark or light space, revealing more than just the figure but evoking mood and spirit of the entire assemblage. Irene Imfeld's photographs lift our perspectives towards the skies for peeks of sudden appearances of light illumination in cloud forms. Imfeld notes regarding our encounters with clouds, that "as always, pausing to look with care can open to the unexpected." Paintings by Carol Dalton evoke feelings akin to observing nature, like light's shifting patterns and movements created by wind on a water's surface. "Nature has been my savior during a most challenging year in memory, both personally and globally. I am grateful to be replenished by my surroundings...my hope is that viewers will find in my work the evidence of those restorative powers..."

This group show centers light as a subject and our profound relationship with it. Individually and collectively this presentation reminds us of the exercise to search for light as we make sense of a chaotic world, grappling with life's complexities and seeking spiritual truth through luminosity.

Vessel Gallery
490 Lake Park Avenue, #10022
Oakland, CA 94610
510-920-0126
Lonnie Lee, Press Contact
510-919-9694, lonnie@vessel-gallery.com

Vessel Gallery represents both emerging and established artists from California and around the world. Formerly exhibiting two- and three-dimensional works in a gallery space of 5000 sq ft. in Oakland (we're still looking - any ideas?), we invite everyone to view our curated exhibitions and individual works through art fairs, its partner platforms, and through this online gallery store. Lonnie Lee, curator and director of Vessel Gallery, is committed to developing long-term relationships with artists and to helping collectors, enthusiasts, and viewers understand the development of the artists' work.

Vessel Gallery is looking for art and art collectors that are interested in helping to enrich humanity through the visual arts. Our goal is to forge a community of artists and collectors that enhances mutual understanding through an engagement with art. We believe that by creating bridges between artist and collector, audience and creator, curator and art professionals, we can make the world a better place.

We help seasoned art collectors find new artists and new works, and we love consulting with admirers and enthusiasts who are just starting to build their collections. We are interested in who you are and what interests you about art, and we are ready and eager to introduce you to the distinguished artists who regularly exhibit with us.

Vessel Gallery is a place where artists and art lovers go on a journey together. We see the gallery as a conduit through which ideas pass from person to person. We're presenting art to cultivate the intellectual and visceral experience that comes from an encounter with art made by humans to move human spirit.

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