Sarah Shepard Gallery is pleased to announce At The Still Point, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of work by Bay Area artist Isadora Gullov-Singh, on view September 13 – October 25, 2025. At The Still Point features new acrylic, watercolor, and cold wax on linen paintings in Gullov-Singh’s signature restrained palette. The title of the show makes reference to a T.S. Eliot poem from the Four Quartets, in which Eliot writes: “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;/ Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is…” Through Gullov-Singh’s ongoing exploration of this liminal “still point,” she aims to deepen the dialogue between structure and release, presence and absence, material and emotion.
Gullov-Singh’s work emerges from a sustained engagement with material and repetition, inspired by nature and architecture. Material experimentation plays a vital role in Gullov-Singh’s practice. She creates surfaces that appear minimal yet are built through patient, meditative layering. Each mark and tonal shift becomes a trace of time and attention. The work resists immediacy: it asks the viewer to slow down, to linger, to notice how subtle differences accumulate into presence. The artist is especially drawn to the tension between organic and linear elements, exploring how order and fluidity coexist. In her paintings, subtle rhythmic patterns and soft saturation echo the inhale and exhale of breathwork, inviting viewers into a quiet dialogue. While linear marks provide a framework, shifting rhythms and understated luminosity open space for intimate engagement.
Gullov-Singh grew up in Paris and Rome, and is of Filipino-Danish heritage. She earned her BA from Columbia University, where she studied Political Science, along with Art History, drawing and painting. She is the mother of two boys and resides with her family in Berkeley, California.
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