BETWEEN HERE AND THERE

BETWEEN HERE AND THERE
February 18 – March 27

Opening Reception, Saturday,
February 21, 4–6 PM

Willard Dixon, Lynette Cook, Frédéric Choisel and Marie Cameron

Bringing together four celebrated painters, the exhibition leans into surrealism and shifting states of perception. Each artist moves between the physical and the psychological, the intimate and the infinite, exploring how painting can hold both the visible world and the inner one at once.

Willard Dixon
Willard Dixon is widely recognized for his calm, contemplative landscapes and skyscapes, paintings that hold stillness, clarity, and a quiet reverence for nature. In this exhibition, however, he reveals a more surreal and spiritual dimension of his practice, one that reaches back to an earlier chapter of his career.
Several of the works on view echo the metaphysical tone of his paintings from the 1960s, when thresholds and symbolic spaces appeared more overtly within his compositions. That sensibility returns here, where space feels suspended between the earthly and the transcendent.
While the atmospheric serenity that defines Dixon’s work remains, it is now charged with psychological and spiritual inquiry. The paintings suggest reflection, ascent, memory, and interior searching, inviting viewers to consider not only where we stand in the physical world, but where we exist within unseen or imagined realms.

Lynette Cook
Lynette Cook’s newest acrylic paintings continue her focus on shadows and silhouettes within San Francisco’s urban landscape and surrounding regions, yet they now carry a more mysterious, layered narrative. Architecture still provides the framework, but atmosphere and subtle symbolic elements shape the emotional tone. Through her lens, the city becomes both a physical place and an interior one.
A silhouetted passerby dissolves into darkness beneath a gridded fire escape. A dragon’s scaled body slips across a wall, as though myth has entered the built environment. Painted clouds, floating faces, and unexpected juxtapositions quietly interrupt the logic of the scene. These moments feel less literal and more psychological, gentle reminders that perception is never singular. In Cook’s work, the ordinary world opens slowly, and almost imperceptibly, into the surreal.

Frédéric Choisel
French-American artist Frédéric Choisel dissolves landscape into fields of light and color, distilling perception into atmospheric abstraction through his new oil paintings on linen. The works unfold as passages through layered realities, as though watching the world glide past a train window, inviting viewers to slow down, to look again, and to consider how memory, sensation, and imagination shape what we see.
Inspired by history, mythology, spiritual longing, and the velocity of contemporary life, this new series holds a quiet tension. The paintings feel at once suspended and in motion, still yet speeding through time, balancing contemplation with momentum.

Marie Cameron
Marie Cameron’s paintings emerge from moments of quiet astonishment in the natural world. Encounters with an albino deer at Pine Mountain Lake, a leucistic hummingbird at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum, and an albino redwood at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park sparked a deeper inquiry into the increasing presence of albinism and leucism within native flora and fauna. As human development expands and wild habitats become fragmented, isolated gene pools heighten the expression of these rare genetic traits.
In her Fade to White series, Cameron translates this phenomenon into visual metaphor. Layers of encaustic veil her oil paintings of plants and animals, at times inscribing faint lines of pigment, colors that feel as though they are disappearing. The veil becomes symbolic, a gesture toward the quiet erasure unfolding in the natural world, an atmosphere we are, often unknowingly, drawing across wildlife itself.

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