Bowery Gallery is pleased to present Intertwining, an exhibition of new paintings and sketchbook pages by Rita Baragona. Rooted in close observation of the natural world, Baragona’s work explores the dynamic relationship between energy and matter, impermanence and form.

Drawing from oceans, gardens, and still lifes that are “never still,” Baragona paints nature as a living process—where light, movement, and rhythm continuously reveal and conceal. Some works unfold as moment-to-moment conversations with nature, while others evolve through an ongoing dialogue with the painting itself. Chaos and order coexist as breaking waves, shifting light, and organic forms resolve into visual rhythm and balance. The when of felt experience meets the where of appearance sometimes as object sometimes as the space between.

Baragona’s sketchbook pages intertwine visual exploration with philosophical reflections inspired by scientific thought, noting how energy moves matter and form gives energy a place to exist. Together, the paintings and sketches express a deepened awareness of impermanence and an enduring, inner beauty found in the natural world. Thaddeus Radell writes: Her paintings celebrate the abstract process of filtering her motifs through a deep visual meditation where abandonment, acceptance and reconciliation of the senses unite, to yield intensely colorful, joyous images.

At the heart of Intertwining is a search for visual poetry—where abundance, flux, and aesthetic order meet. Baragona offers these works as a meditation on perception, resilience, and the possibility of harmony amid contemporary uncertainty.

Baragona has exhibited her work in multiple one person and group shows at the Bowery Gallery and throughout the USA.