Dec 13 2025
Scenes from summer to feed your nostalgia for long, sunny days
that feel so distant now. These pieces, featured in both our
Main galleries and Linda Roesch Gallery, recall the warmth of
summer months, filled with open skies and blooming fields. A
bowl brimming with fresh strawberries, a field dotted...Read more
Scenes from summer to feed your nostalgia for long, sunny days
that feel so distant now. These pieces, featured in both our
Main galleries and Linda Roesch Gallery, recall the warmth of
summer months, filled with open skies and blooming fields. A
bowl brimming with fresh strawberries, a field dotted with
lavender flowers beneath a cloudless sky; Kelli Boi and Gaal
Shepherd’s paintings imagine a languid summer’s day as if in
conversation. Strawberries, at the peak of the season, picked
and washed, glistening as they wait to be plucked from their
bowl. In ‘4 Corners and a Berry Bowl’, Boi populates a busy
background with rustling foliage with quick, hazy brushstrokes –
deep spotted evergreen leaves against the deep reds of the
strawberries, a quick notation of blood-orange flowers to the
right amidst a flurry of thin, dancing brushwork. The artist
brings an ecstatic energy to this still life, one small moment,
the beginning of a day or a season, full of possibilities.
Perhaps after a slow, lazy breakfast the day calls for a drive
through the countryside. Lingering across Shepherd’s ‘Fields of
Vetch’, the landscape becomes notations of form and refractions
of color and light. At the central plane of the composition is a
dense forest, acting as an anchor to the unending sky and the
seemingly unending field in front of it. The field is
transformed into a mosaic of purples and shades of green,
lilting flowerheads in a warm breeze. This treatment of color
reflects an Impressionist rendering of a scene that reinvented
representational styles of art to a study of optics, grounded
primarily in understanding and experimenting with the
relationship between light and color. Here, the style lends
itself to a feeling of serenity. Sierra Winand’s ‘Waning Gold’
elicits the magic of a summer’s day. In a piece that seems to
reflect upon the cycles of nature, Winand imbues this scene with
whimsical wonder. A river arches up into the sky, its frothy
currents become gauzy clouds as the sky melts back into a green
landscape on the opposite side. This transformation is
simultaneously a framing device and the central scene as the
undulating water, sky, and grassy terrain swirls and spirals
around itself. At the edge of the river, a pelican perches, in
the sky another bird soars over a road incised into the earth
where a car ambles along. Among magical and metaphysical, a
conversation between man and nature unravels.
