Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to present The distance we keep, a curated group exhibition featuring works by Whitney Bedford, Sebastian Blanck, Inka Essenhigh, April Gornik, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Wolf Kahn, Tom LaDuke, and Elizabeth Magill. Bringing together a diverse range of artistic voices, the exhibition explores the emotional, psychological, and spatial dimensions of distance through painting and image-making. Across varied visual languages and approaches, the selected works reflect on perception, memory, landscape, and the shifting boundaries between intimacy and separation.

While each artist maintains a distinct practice, the exhibition reveals shared concerns surrounding atmosphere, presence, and the construction of visual space. Expansive landscapes, fragmented interiors, dreamlike scenes, and layered abstractions create environments that feel simultaneously familiar and elusive. Through luminous color, expressive surfaces, and subtle distortions of perspective, the works evoke states of contemplation and uncertainty, inviting viewers to consider how distance shapes both personal experience and collective imagination.

The distance we keep establishes a dialogue between artists working across different generations and aesthetic traditions, highlighting the enduring capacity of painting to articulate emotional and spatial tension. Moving between representation and abstraction, intimacy and detachment, the exhibition reflects on the ways contemporary artists navigate notions of connection, absence, and memory within an increasingly fragmented world. Together, the works form a nuanced meditation on the spaces—both physical and emotional—that separate and connect us.