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The Space Between Us
Explore artwork that captures the subtle connections and meaningful gaps that define the human experience.
Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Metaphor
Spring 2026 Season
Experience the launch of Metaphor, an exhibition season featuring seven solo exhibitions and projects exploring visual metaphor, memory, identity, and collective experience. This season brings together artists who use symbolism and layered imagery to reveal complex stories about self, place, history, and imagination.
Image Credit: Nathan Huff, Phantom Limbs (detail), 2019, Gouache and watercolor on paper
Courtesy of the Artist
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Nathan Huff
Heavy Hope
Drawings, sculptures, and mixed-media installations that blend personal memory with unexpected narratives, pairing domestic and natural objects to spark conversations about meaning and interpretation.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Nathan Huff, Phantom Limbs (detail), 2019
Courtesy of the Artist
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Sharon Kagan
Bearing Witness
A twenty-five-year survey of Kagan’s practice, exploring knitting as an allegory for human interconnectedness and intergenerational trauma across drawing, painting, installation, and performance.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Sharon Kagan, Complexion (detail), 2020, Mixed media painting
Courtesy of the Artist
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Bachrun LoMele
Burn Pile/ All Kinds of Murmuring Here and There
A sculptural installation built from papier-mâché and faux-wood structures inscribed with randomized community “truths,” exploring the tension between fact and illusion.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Bachrun LoMele, Burn Pile / All Kinds of Murmuring Here and There (detail), 2022, Relief prints on paper mounted on gatorboard, oil pen, markers, ink, paper maché, paper clay, aluminum leaf, aluminum foil, acrylic paint, running LED signs, scrambled, donated truth essences
Courtesy of the Artist
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Vojislav Radovanović
Fables from the Valley in Between
Whimsical dreamscapes where personal history merges with fantastical imagery, including works from the Bird Circuit series alongside new sculpture and installation.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Vojislav Radovanović, In the Moonlight (detail), 2025, Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the Artist
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Francis C. Robateau Jr.
Halftone Histories: Memory, Erasure, and Belonging
Mixed-media works inspired by Belizean color, architecture, and the artist's diasporic experience that examine how cultural identity is formed, hidden, and rediscovered.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Francis C. Robateau Jr., Hybrid Moments (detail), 2022, Acrylic and screenprint on canvas
Courtesy of the Artist
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Brian Singer
It was a pleasure to burn
Intricate cut-paper forms made from banned books, drawing attention to censorship and the diverse voices it attempts to suppress.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Brian Singer, Chapter and Verses #2 (detail), 2025, Bible pages and acrylic on Belgian linen wrapped wood paper
Courtesy of the Artist
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Diane Briones Williams
The Precarious Life of the Parol
Textile sculptures and installations celebrating Filipinx heritage while tracing the complex, often obscured colonial history of the parol, a traditional star lantern.
Part of Metaphor exhibition season
Image Credit: Diane Briones Williams, Anting, Anting (detail), 2021, Salvaged wooden frames, cement, wire, dowel, yarn, resin, acrylic, sinigang seasoning wrappers
Courtesy of the Artist