On View
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February 9-February 22, 2026
Ben Quinn
1:3, 2026
Watercolor on Canvas
11 x 14 in.
In 1:3 Ben Quinn breaks from his usual mode of full bleed painting while continuing to expand on the motif of the star. Careful viewers of Quinn’s work will know that despite their initially chaotic appearance, his work is ruled by deep rhythms. 1:3 in particular demonstrates a tangible scale in which Quinn’s restraint reveals insights into devices of the work. Stopping the composition short of covering the whole canvas with the second layer, illusionary elements of stars and circles echo with a cymatic focus that hums with room to breathe. Where many of Quinn’s star paintings descend (or ascend) into themselves, these new geometries seem to levitate above the disorienting and often bright starscape. If Quinn’s other paintings invite the viewer to look within, this piece challenges us to look beyond. The painting is a portal opening, a broken rule and a new rhythm for Quinn’s practice.
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Past
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January 23-February 8, 2026
Michael Hayden
Nightlight, 2025
Dark Room Print
11 x 14 in.
Stitching his way across the American West, Michael Hayden explores place through movement, curiosity, and close observation. The photographer and filmmaker creates work rooted in documentary traditions around spaces shaped by change, repair and erasure. Hayden’s work is not limited by his rigorous photographic practice and instead remains open to intuition and imagination. Nightlight contains the quiet wonder of a child, faithfully capturing the fragments of light and texture of the mosaic surface, while challenging the viewer to look beyond the stary sky into the world of rolling clouds reflected in the glass.
“The moon fades beneath the streetlights, its light thinned and scattered. The stars in Los Angeles are on Hollywood Boulevard or hiding in the hills. The sky is easy to overlook here. Yet, at the right time, in the right place, they are there, waiting.” — Michael Hayden
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January 15-22, 2026
Alberto Cuadros
Strawberry (American Prayer), 2023
Acrylic on paper
9.25 x 12.25 in.
Students of Alberto Cuadros’s hyperseries will be delighted to see two of the artist’s inspirations collide in Strawberry (American Prayer). Combining his best-known motif—the iconic strawberry—with his Jim Morrison “bar/restaurant” portraits, the piece continues Cuadros’s ongoing tribute to two Californian icons. This work lifts its title from the 1978 Doors album, created using recordings of Morrison’s spoken word poetry after his death. Like the album, the painting is haunted by a vision of an older, mythological California.
Cuadros’s works often feel layered and “twice-painted.” Frequently rooted in replica, reproduced photography, and represented imagery, this rare work is no exception. This style gives us a moment to imagine the many revised and reproduced multiples by the artist hanging in homes across California and beyond. To date, Cuadros has completed over 700 strawberry paintings and shows no sign of stopping.
Cuadros has completed over 700 Strawberry paintings, and shows no sign of stopping.
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