Louise LeBourgeois: Exhale | March 5 - March 28, 2026

Louise LeBourgeois’s paintings are built through slow accumulation, with layers of pigment laid down, sanded back, and rebuilt until the surface achieves a luminous optical depth. Based in Chicago, she has returned to Lake Michigan as a long-running subject, using its horizon—water, sky, and the shifting atmosphere between them—as a site of sustained attention. Her paintings unfold gradually, inviting the viewer to linger as perception itself begins to slow and sharpen. What may register at first as calm deepens with looking.

With 'Exhale,' LeBourgeois does not offer closure so much as a sustained space for feeling. These paintings ask for slowness, and they reward it, inviting viewers to stay long enough for the surface to change, for the calm to become charged, and for the act of looking to itself become a kind of breath.

Gwen Hardie: Alchemy of Light | April 2 - May 2, 2026

In Gwen Hardie's paintings, a square of canvas becomes an animated field of color that holds light and suggests three-dimensional presence. When shown individually, each painting exists as a concentrated field of attention. Installed in sequences, however, the works unfold in time. Placed edge to edge, one canvas triggers the next, with color becoming relational. The eye moves laterally, comparing and recalibrating, and registering shifts in temperature and depth. This quiet visual journey echoes the artist’s attentiveness to motion, flux, and the quiet advancement of time.

'Alchemy of Light' encompasses a transformation in which the physical canvas becomes depth, color becomes light, and light becomes time.

Images:

Louise LeBourgeois, "Anything True is Connected to All Truth #703," 2026. Oil on panel, 36 x 36 inches. Image courtesy Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Gwen Hardie, "Arc of the Sun, Venetian Red," 2025. Oil on canvas, 20 x 160 inches. Image courtesy Dolby Chadwick Gallery