Obligate Oil on canvas 72" x 144" (triptych) - $14,000
Electric Sheep Oil on canvas 48" x 60" - $4,800
Sister Taxon Oil on canvas 40" x 72" - $4,600
Phylum Oil on canvas 48" x 60" - $4,800
Cade Oil on canvas 40" x 72" - $4,600
Murano Oil on canvas 30" x 65" - $3,200
Save Room Oil on panel 42" x 42" - $2,900
Spirit Being Oil on canvas 48" x 48" - $3,800
Deep Sleep Oil on canvas 33" x 72" - $3,900
Overture is a series of mixed-media landscapes and floral images exploring transformation, mystery, and the changing character of the natural world. Towering clouds, luminous water lilies, and white peonies set against deep darkness become different expressions of related ideas: beauty and vulnerability, growth and decay, what is revealed and what remains hidden. The works are based on recognizable places and forms, while also suggesting the immense forces of weather, water, light, and time.
The series is rooted in the rural landscapes of my childhood and connected to the sublime tradition of nineteenth-century landscape painting, in which light, weather, water, and sky could inspire awe. I bring that tradition into the present through a contemporary process that combines photography with oil paint, ink, pastel, and matte mediums on birch panels. Photographic detail meets visible brushwork, drips, and splatters, creating a tension between what has been documented and what has been transformed.
The title Overture suggests the opening of a larger experience. These works invite viewers into a world of shifting light, dark water, gathering clouds, and fading flowers - a world shaped by beauty, uncertainty, and continual change.
CELESTE KELLER & JESSICA MASTERS
The Space Between
November 12 - 28, 2026
Celeste Keller
The Space Between examines the shifting territory between control and surrender, recognition and abstraction, what is revealed and what remains unknown.
These paintings begin with photographs taken while I am submerged in water. I can position myself before the camera, but I cannot control the water’s movement. It bends the body, obscures the face and transforms familiar forms into something unpredictable.
In the studio, I begin to regain control through the deliberate process of painting. I isolate and closely crop the figure against a stark white ground. Repeated stripes create structure and movement within an image that hovers between realism and abstraction.
Although I use myself as the model, these works are not self-portraits in a traditional sense. As I paint, the figure detaches from my identity and becomes a subject I interpret through my own experience. By withholding familiar visual cues, I leave space for viewers to complete what is missing through their own perceptions and experiences. The work ultimately resides in the space between the image I carefully construct and the meaning
I cannot control.
Jessica Masters
Jessica Master’s distils the joy of summer in this series of paintings. Her soft focus paintings sparkle with diffused light and the energy of the colours bring her subjects to life. Her iconic oil paintings are about her relationships to people and the landscapes of her summer. They are hazy sundrenched dreamscapes of figures diving and jumping into waves and cool lake water. Her work is about the cherished memories of summer, throwing ones self with abandon into a lake, diving or jumping into the water, while the sunlight dances on the waves.
As an artist I get my inspiration from my own experiences; everyday things that demand a visual interpretation. However personal, I strive to articulate the images in a way that you, the viewer, can attach your own personal story. My hope is to touch on subjects and experiences that bring forth a memory or a feeling that will connect you with the image. With each subject I try to capture an atmosphere through the colour and light, in an attempt to push the image toward a deeper meaning about human nature.