Freight+Volume is very pleased to present Like a star at dawn, the second solo show of recent paintings by Mary DeVincentis at our Tribeca space. The exhibition runs from September 9th to October 17th, 2026.

In the Diamond sutra, the Buddha employs a series of metaphors to jolt the thinking mind into a heart-mind-gut awareness of the transitory nature of our lives and of all life. Like a star at dawn is one such metaphor, and the artist chose it as the title for her upcoming solo at Freight+Volume. The paintings included in this exhibition depict encounters between people, animals and nature, light and darkness, temporality and eternity. Each work explores this existential terrain in its own visual and emotional language.

The late great Dave Hickey once stated, Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. DeVincentis' uncannily beautiful paintings are indeed seditious - unabashedly presenting a world of beauty, truth, and wonder in an art world fraught with irony, mannerism and posturing. She is radical in that pursuit - a seer, a visionary who doggedly goes her own way, creating her own singular path despite the pressure of trend and popular opinion in our age of sound bite, sensation, and a social media-governed art industry.

There is magic in DeVincentis' work - an intuitive mix of sorcery of the soul culminating in unique, idiosyncratic paintings which capture that A-HA creative moment when everything comes together, when both artist and viewer know it's just right. Ed Moses used to refer to the artist as shaman, and DeVincentis certainly fills that persona. She creates indelible images on the viewer's memory long after initial encounters.

Blossoming cherry trees, waterfalls, rainbows, dancing dogs and tigers, mermaids, endless blue skies, full moons, butterflies, spider webs, lovers, sunrise and sunsets are all depicted with an unapologetic passion for beauty, and joy - with a disarmingly childlike directness of color and bravery of brushstroke.