AFTERLIGHT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AFTERLIGHT
July 16 – August 22, 2025
Artist Reception: Saturday, July 19, 4–6 PM

Alyson Belcher
Stephan Hoffpauir
Jill Keller Peters
Susan Manchester
David Molesky
Diana Tremaine

Andra Norris Gallery is pleased to present AFTERLIGHT, a summer group exhibition featuring new paintings, drawings, watercolors, and photographs by six celebrated contemporary artists. The exhibition considers perception, transformation, and the quiet beauty found in transitional spaces.

Stephan Hoffpauir
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors capture quiet moments of stillness in overlooked environments, including alleys, cafés, and neighborhood corners that are infused with a surreal American sensibility. Echoing Spanish and Dutch still life traditions, his work transforms the mundane into meditations on memory and place.

Diana Tremaine
Tremaine’s oil paintings merge the personal and universal. In her Crosscurrents series, swans and seabirds move through layered abstract fields, suggesting emotional depth and natural movement. These paintings evoke a sense of balance and persistence, reminding us of the grace within adaptation.

Susan Manchester
From her studio in Carmel by the Sea, Manchester draws inspiration from flight and the poetry of the natural world. Her recent Conté and pastel drawings, “Silent Wing, Great Horned Owl” and “Singular Feather,” are portrayed with tenderness and precision, rooted in her long-held fascination with the owl’s soft power—its silent flight, camouflage, and elusive presence. A study in motion and stillness, the drawings evoke animated silence through tonal depth and a palette drawn from the earth.

David Molesky
Molesky’s latest body of work approaches art history with wit and irony. Drawing from classical themes and the heroic narrative, he subverts these traditions by casting the banana as a central figure—familiar, comical, and unexpectedly potent. In these paintings and drawings, symbolism is both playful and pointed.
 

Jill Keller Peters
A master of color and rhythm, Keller Peters creates vibrant geometric abstractions in oil on canvas. Her work explores the interplay of hue and space, choreographed with precision and guided by years of landscape painting and photography. Her luminous color fields radiate with energy, celebrating light as both subject and sustainer.

Alyson Belcher
Alyson Belcher's Final Season is a photographic meditation on the fragility and quiet resilience of life, shaped by personal experiences of loss and the witnessing of loved ones in decline. Using small branches photographed against a white background—suspended or carefully balanced in empty space—Belcher composes still-lifes that resemble symbols or characters in a primitive language, each one reaching toward something ancient yet universal. These photographs serve not only as elegies for what has passed, but as invitations to find beauty in life’s most delicate transitions.