Summer pleasures, the annual group exhibition at Thomas Deans Fine Art, features a new and lighthearted changing display of paintings on canvas, panel, and paper by artists whose work the gallery shows regularly. As always, the exhibition presents a mix of represented and guest artists.

This year’s featured guest artist is Chinese American painter Ivy Wu. Born in Shanghai, Wu immigrated to the United States in 2013. Principally an abstract painter, Wu won a scholarship to and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at SCAD—Savannah College of Art and Design. She now an assistant professor of art at Kennesaw State University.

Canada’s Linda Henningson has painted an irresistible series of witty and intriguing paintings of still lifes in interiors. These are not your great-grandmother’s still lifes, even the ones with cats.

New works by two New Orleans painters Deedra Ludwig and Kevin Gillentine draw inspiration from the dense vegetation and water-washed landscapes of southern Louisiana. Both have won wide popularity in Atlanta: Kevin through luminous semi-abstract river landscapes, and Deedra in densely painted mangroves created from pigments of earth, rare minerals, and 14K gold.

Artists Debbie Ezell, Janet Hamilton, Brian Hibbard, and Claudia Rilling, and Christine So will be showing in Summer Pleasures for the first time, alongside familiar gallery artists.