The Value of Archival Portraits for Growing Families

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in various methods, but all share a level of sensitivity to the short lived: the overlooked image, the half-remembered location, the unsteady limit between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful however insistent meditation on how meaning builds up in normal life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinctive painterly style, these retellings of easily-forgotten moments demonstrate how an ordinary life, when examined from a certain perspective, begins to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages explain the fragmentary nature of memory and meaning, calling photographic fact into question by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Stabilizing methodical accuracy with a clearly human, necessarily imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings give physical kinds to images that we normally see via a screen andquickly forget, such as stock pictures and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her unique language hazy, distorted, subtly unsettling shows the alienation and dissociation fundamental in a world saturated with images that seems to appear and disappear ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides them a 2nd life in which they end up being irreversible. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a particular ahistorical quality; they link multiple histories of product experimentation and development from all over the world within a special visual language. They locate the viewer within landscapes that feel endless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unfamiliar, these images are deeply tranquil, welcoming you to savor the basic satisfaction of a perpetually twilit, pastoral world.Llus-Carles Peric Cap a La Calma, 2014 The scenes that Bianca MacCall paints a train window showing the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible automobile hidden by an ochre-yellow drape seem intentionally strange. They make me think about the simultaneous absurdity and charm of the world in front of me, considering familiar scenes through an unknown lens. Bianca MacCall Continuous Motion, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In reality, if you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you might see it alter in real time. The unsettled, unforeseeable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.