Twilight Hour

Chrissy Angliker Sami Havia Kate McQuillen Will Sears Joe Warrior-Walker Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to present Twilight Hour. Twilight Hour brings together a curated selection of works from gallery artists who have mastered light as both material and metaphor. Each artist, though distinct in choice of media, technique, and intention, explores light's ability to shape perception, atmosphere, and emotion. The exhibition invites viewers to slow down and experience light as an active, transformative presence rather than a passive illumination. Chrissy Angliker's investigation of the push and pull between control and chaos is depicted through intentional marks, each mark challenged by the nature of the medium. The transitional and oscillating tension between these two opposing elements is representative of Angliker’s light-filled search for a sense of grace. Sami Havia explores the relationship between the accidental and deliberate, the abstract and figurative, with a focus on light and observation. The artist's newest series of paintings is built on the foundation of repetition and rhythm, with a focus on ambient, ethereal, and spatial moods. Kate McQuillen's paintings are rooted in action painting and abstraction. Her brushstrokes, however, are compressed through printmaking processes, creating a super flat surface into which marks, shapes, colors, and light seem to be embedded. Their unified surface quality and use of implied texture complicate notions of what gestural markmaking can be. Will Sears' work is composed of restrained color palettes and repetitive construction. Each composition explores how color, light, and material relate to space in different ways. The gradually unfolding color relationships create a sense of push and pull, which yields a perceived sense of depth as the viewer tries to make sense of the hierarchical relationship between colors. Joe Warrior-Walker's paintings are playful yet poignant studies of the cultural impact of contrasting environments. Operating in the realm of abstraction, each painting is a visual translation of landscape, memory, and identity, an accumulation of observations interwoven to communicate a personal experience through color, light, and form.