Everything is illuminated is a solo exhibition of works by acclaimed landscape painter Daniel Morper (1944–2026). Featuring evocative cityscapes of Santa Fe’s Railyard, this exhibition displays Morper’s masterful interplay of light, place, and history.

Before the Railyard became the vibrant arts district it is today, it was a slowly decaying remnant of the past. Morper captured this transitional landscape with the same care and reverence that 19th-century Hudson River School painters brought to America’s natural vistas. Yet unlike his predecessors, Morper focused not solely on unspoiled nature but on the interplay between the manmade and the natural: corrugated warehouses, idle train cars, telephone poles, and sunlit streets. Through his eyes, these objects are imbued with quiet beauty and an almost divine illumination.

As art critic Peter Frank observed, “Morper rewards looking… emphasizing, but not exaggerating, the skew of a vantage, the force and weight of a horizon, the surprise and poignancy of an object silhouetted against a sky.” Morper’s paintings of the Railyard, created during the late 1990s and early 2000s, document a moment of slow change—before the arrival of cafés, restaurants, and biennials—and offer a poignant reflection on the evolving history of Santa Fe.

Works such as In the yards (1996) and Illumination (1997) capture identical vantage points under different light conditions, transforming ordinary city structures into luminous, almost mythic forms. In these paintings, Morper achieves a harmony between past and present, between human activity and natural quietude, offering a meditation on memory, time, and place.

Born in Fort Benning, Georgia, Daniel Morper studied at the University of Notre Dame and the Corcoran Museum School of Art before practicing law in New York. He later devoted himself entirely to painting, living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Morper’s landscapes have been exhibited nationwide and are held in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

Everything is illuminated invites viewers to engage with Morper’s unique vision—one in which the mundane becomes extraordinary, and the familiar is bathed in light, creating a window into the layered history and evolving identity of Santa Fe.