Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present Reflections on Light, a group exhibition featuring works by four female artists. The show opens January 25th and runs through March 8th, 2025.

Creating the visual discourse at the gallery will be paintings by Miya Ando, Pegan Brooke and Kathleen Jacobs alongside sculptures by Ann Gardner. These artists share a preoccupation with the nature of light and its ephemeral qualities. Fleeting aspects and impermanent moments are harnessed and captured into serene visual experiences intended to give the viewer pause and consider our relationship with nature. Each artist uses their specific medium and unique process to create beautifully contemplative and nuanced artworks that are sublime records of time, place and experiences. Including Miya Ando’s work in the exhibition is made possible with the generous collaboration of Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City.

Miya Ando meticulously studies the sky, chronicling different times of day, location, weather and seasonal changes in her artworks. The artist’s practice is rooted in mono no aware, a concept from her Japanese heritage that refers to the awareness of impermanence and beauty, or a sensitivity to ephemera. Ando’s upbringing bridges the cultures and languages of two distinct worlds: the Redwood Forest of Northern California and a Buddhist temple in Japan. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations reflect this cultural duality as well as the dialogue between the natural and the man-made.

Pegan Brooke’s paintings investigate light and its reflective qualities on water in all its forms – as a flowing river, a frozen lake, snow-capped mountain, and the like. For Brooke, the fleeting nature of light bouncing off these surfaces is filled with countless possibilities of subtle change. Locations also play an important part in her practice, for the light and experiences vary from Pont Aven in Brittany, France, to the Pacific Ocean near her studio in Bolinas and the San Francisco Bay area, to the Silver Creek in Idaho, to the Inland Seto Sea in Japan.

Kathleen Jacobs’ depictions of time, light, atmosphere and weather patterns are quite literal in that her process becomes a physical record of all. The artist wraps her linen canvases on the trunks of different arbor species, leaving them exposed to the elements over months or years. She returns to them periodically to apply layers of pigment and oil stick using frottage to trace the relief of the wood grains that act as support to the canvases. The linens absorb multi-layers of pigments hand-applied by the artist which get combined with Mother Nature’s patina, creating beautifully atmospheric compositions.

Seattle-based artist Ann Gardner is renowned for her investigations with one of the most ancient man-made materials: glass. As her primary medium, the properties of glass have allowed Gardner to explore her preoccupation with the perception of light and space, color, pattern, volume and other characteristics. Gardner hand-cuts large sheets of the colored and reflective material into tiny mosaics which are then arranged into large wall-mounted or free-standing sculptural structures.

Heather Gaudio Fine Art specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment.