Image Credit: Tony Prikryl
This selection celebrates the expressive potential of light and color at the height of summer. From the glow of a mountain scape to the suggested outline of a sailboat, each work channels a distinct kind of radiance. Though their mediums vary, oil, acrylic, photography, and light, together the works speak in harmony through tone and atmosphere.
What drew me to these works is not only their palette or subject matter, but the rhythm they create together — a visual tempo that invites the viewer to look closer and sense the shifting frequencies of light, mood, and memory. From a waterfall scape surrounded by flora drawn in great detail to diverse treatments of daylight’s glow, and the typographic precision that anchors the grouping with graphic clarity, each piece plays a distinct role in the visual dialogue.
Together, these works offer a prismed view of summer’s energy, where mood and material shift, but the feeling of brightness endures.
Andy Millner, Floating World (Waterfall), 2025, Pigment ink drawing on mulberry paper, 60 x 42 in
In Floating World (Waterfall), Andy Millner conjures a scene of quiet wonder, an ethereal cascade framed by meticulously rendered flora, each petal and blade drawn by hand with a digital pen. These elements come from a living archive of drawings collected over two decades, some resurfacing in new works like plants in a garden, familiar, yet transformed.
A luminous gradient reimagines negative space with reverence for Japanese woodblock printing. What appears serene is dense with detail, pulling the viewer into a slowed-down world where attention becomes devotion.
Terri Loewenthal, Maroon Bells (Ute land), 2024, Archival pigment print, 48 x 64 in
Terri Loewenthal reimagines traditional landscape photography through a surreal, kaleidoscopic lens. Her images are created entirely on-site as single exposures, no digital manipulation, just precise, in-camera collage.
In Maroon Bells (Ute Land) , layered vantage points and glowing, psychedelic color disrupt the familiar alpine scene, offering a prismatic view of place and perception. The work draws the eye inward with its shifting depth and near-hallucinatory vibrancy, asking us to reconsider not only what we see, but how we see it.
Evan Hecox, Nine Rivers, 2024, Acrylic on panel, 24 x 36 in
This graphic work transforms the names of nine rivers into an abstract pattern, each letter rendered in its own distinctive typographic rhythm and washed in shades of blue. Rooted in cartographic reference, Nine Rivers becomes something more: a meditative map of memory and place. The repetition and subtle variations in form create a visual pulse, while the cool palette evokes the deep shadows and sharp light, places conjured from imagination and recall. Like much of Evan Hecox’s work, it draws beauty from the overlooked, distilling the world into essential shapes that reflect the river’s constant, organic change.
Liz Nielsen, Sailboat Landscape, 2024, Analog Chromogenic Light Painting, on Fujiflex, 40 x 32 in
Liz Nielsen’s works are created entirely in the dark using exposure on light-sensitive paper, in effect painting with light. In Sailboat Landscape, a luminous blue sail hovers in white space, its edges softly marked by the traces of exposure and chance. Because each piece is composed in darkness, the final image is always a surprise — an embodiment of unpredictability and surrender. This openness to outcome mirrors the spirit of summer itself: drifting, bright, and unbound by expectation.
Though abstract in form, the image evokes a landscape suspended in time, a glimpse into another dimension where nothing is fixed and everything gently floats.
Nancy Friedland, Tashlich, 2024, Acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 30 in
Nancy Friedland brings a photographer’s eye to her painting practice, capturing candid moments withquiet intimacy. In Tashlich , a family gathers casually in a summer garden. The scene is rendered with painterly softness and luminous attention to light, as if snapped in the gentle pause between conversations. The raw wood surface remains visible beneath the brushwork, adding a tactile immediacy. The result is a relaxed, almost magical realism, a summer moment held just long enough to feel timeless.
