RESIDUAL LIGHT

RESIDUAL LIGHT
August 5 – September 11
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 8, 4:00–6:00 PM

GAIL CHASE BIEN
ALYSON BELCHER
MIMI JENSEN
ANNE SUBERCASEAUX

Light is never static. It shifts with the seasons, changes throughout the day, and shapes the way we experience both the world around us and the memories we carry. Residual Light brings together four artists whose work explores the lasting presence of light through painting and photography. Whether moving across water, filtering through an interior, or reflecting from concrete and steel, light becomes more than illumination. It becomes atmosphere, emotion, and a way of seeing.

Though their subjects differ, Gail Chase Bien, Alyson Belcher, Mimi Jensen, and Anne Subercaseaux share a sensitivity to the subtle ways light reveals form, creates mood, and alters perception. Each artist offers a distinct perspective, yet together their work reminds us that what stays with us is often not the object itself, but the feeling it leaves behind.

GAIL CHASE BIEN

At the center of Residual Light are the luminous paintings of Gail Chase Bien, whose work reflects a lifelong fascination with the changing qualities of light in nature. Inspired by water, forests, and expansive horizons, she begins with careful observation but moves beyond description, creating paintings that feel as much remembered as seen.

Built through countless translucent layers of oil paint over months, and often years, each work develops an extraordinary depth and inner luminosity. Light seems to emerge from within the surface rather than fall upon it. Bien's paintings reward sustained looking, revealing new relationships of color, atmosphere, and space with every return.

ALYSON BELCHER

In her newest photographic series, Delta, Alyson Belcher explores the fragile landscapes of Northern California with remarkable patience and restraint. Her photographs are rooted in observation, yet they reach beyond documentation, capturing fleeting moments when light, weather, and season quietly reshape the land.

The title refers both to the California Delta and to the Greek symbol for change. Belcher's photographs reflect this continual state of transformation, revealing a landscape that is both resilient and vulnerable. Rich in atmosphere, they encourage us to notice what is often overlooked and to appreciate the beauty found in constant change.

MIMI JENSEN

Mimi Jensen's paintings begin without a fixed destination. Working intuitively, she builds her compositions through color, gesture, texture, and light, allowing each painting to discover its own direction.

Rather than describing a specific interior or landscape, her work evokes the experience of memory itself. Familiar forms emerge and dissolve, creating spaces that feel both personal and universal. Her paintings leave room for viewers to bring their own associations, making each encounter quietly unique.

ANNE SUBERCASEAUX

Anne Subercaseaux finds unexpected beauty within the geometry of contemporary architecture. Bridges, roadways, buildings, and reflected surfaces become the starting point for paintings that balance structure with atmosphere.

By isolating fleeting moments of light and shadow, she transforms familiar urban spaces into compositions that are both precise and poetic. Reflections, patterns, and shifting planes of color encourage us to see the built environment with fresh attention, discovering elegance in places we might otherwise pass without notice.

Together, these four artists demonstrate the many ways light can shape experience. Their work moves between landscape and architecture, observation and memory, realism and abstraction, reminding us that light continues to resonate long after its source has disappeared. Residual Light celebrates those quiet moments that remain with us and continue to influence the way we see the world.