Artist Reception: Saturday, September 6, from 5–7pm
Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Reflections, Zaida Oenema’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view September 6 through October 25, 2025. In this new body of work, the Dutch–Finnish artist distills fleeting encounters with the natural world into precise, architectonic compositions. The exhibition brings together hand–sawn wood forms layered with the artist’s paper pulp and pigments, alongside paper reliefs cut with a scalpel or burned with a soldering iron. Across these works, she engages with the underlying proportions, divisions, and rhythms of environmental phenomena, translating them into compositions at once exacting and alive.
Beneath Oenema’s technical rigor lies a philosophical position. Her practice affirms beauty, stillness, and care in a time of instability—grounded in what she calls “our spiritual duty to cherish the world around us.” Hope, for her, is an active state, renewed moment by moment, like light moving anew across a surface. In Reflections, she unites invention with the physicality of materials and the shaping influence of nature, sustaining a practice where making and contemplation are inseparable.
Check gallery website for hours and additional info
