Close By - Artist Reception

Close By brings together the work of Phoebe Hughes and Abi Box, two painters whose practices intersect through a shared attentiveness to landscape, flora, and the steady, observational processes that shape their work. While both artists' active printmaking practices initially drew them together, the influence of print appears here less as a direct technique and more as an undercurrent—surfacing in the subtle repetition of forms, the layering of marks, and the sensitivity to light that threads through their canvases. Throughout the exhibition, there is a sensibility in the work that gestures toward what has long been described as a "Bermuda light," with its glare and flare, its capacity to wash forms out or sharpen them into focus, which Box and Hughes allow to push and pull their focus.