The exhibition brings together four contemporary artists working across a range of media, each with a distinct approach. Together, their work celebrates the new year and its sense of renewal, possibility, and fresh perspective.

Featuring James Torlakson and Jane B. Grimm, and introducing Tara Esperanza and Eleanor Rahim.

Eleanor Rahim’s work explores the emotional and perceptual power of water through painting and drawing. Her images do not describe a specific place so much as a state of being, where motion, light, and depth converge in moments that feel both immediate and meditative.

Rahim’s layered surfaces capture the tension between solidity and flux. Waves crest, dissolve, and reform, rendered with a precision that feels observational yet deeply intuitive. Color plays a central role: submerged greens, shifting blues, and luminous whites evoke the sea’s interior life, suggesting movement beneath the surface as much as what is visible above it. The scale of the compositions invites viewers into an immersive encounter, where the painting feels less like a window onto a scene and more like a lived, sensory experience.

Tara Esperanza’s realist succulent paintings continue her sustained exploration of botanical form, using these resilient plants as a framework for examining structure, color, and the quiet drama of growth. The works reflect themes of connection, endurance, and renewal, revealing how living forms respond to pressure, proximity, and time.

Carefully composed, the succulents interlock and press against one another, creating a palpable sense of contained energy and tension. Backgrounds are reduced or softened, directing attention to the internal architecture of each plant. Repetition, variation, and rhythm work together to produce visual harmony, while what may initially read as botanical realism gradually unfolds into something more abstract and psychological.

By isolating and enlarging these natural forms, Esperanza transforms the familiar into something contemplative and quietly monumental. Her paintings invite reflection on resilience and adaptation, and on the beauty that emerges through slow, deliberate growth.

We are pleased to present new non-narrative acrylic paintings by James Torlakson in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall, a body of work marked by spontaneous energy and vibrant color. The titles signal carefully considered color schemes, each grounded in color theory and the laws of diminishing contrast. These principles have shaped Torlakson’s practice for decades, particularly within his realist work, where they serve to heighten the sense of space and lived visual experience.

The exhibition also includes a series drawn from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach and Playland at Rockaway. These works feature the artist’s iconic gritty suburban landscapes, where moments of quiet grandeur emerge from the everyday. Torlakson’s realism is rooted in the sensuous engagement with the world and its reinterpretation through paint. He is less concerned with faithful replication than with transforming what he sees to reflect his personal visual language. His paintings, watercolors, and etchings have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, and his work is held in numerous permanent collections of American museums.

Jane B. Grimm’s Syncopation series is musically inspired, with amorphic forms grounded in biology and her deep love of the natural world. The four new Syncopation wall sculptures on view evoke coral reefs, the waters of the Caribbean Sea, and swirling tide pools.

Each work is composed of countless hand-formed ceramic cups with linear texture, individually glazed and assembled onto a wooden panel that brings the composition to completion. Grimm is a Pop Art pioneer whose original ceramic sculptures, both freestanding and wall-mounted, are entirely handmade. Using ceramic clay and a low-fire kiln process, she creates works that balance playful form with rigorous craft, resulting in surfaces rich with rhythm, movement, and tactile presence.