Connection Across Distance
plus an auction and an art show in brooklyn next month
I am auctioning a painting to benefit Support Kind and their efforts to support families impacted by ICE as part of the #ArtistsAgainstICEAuction. The auction ends Thursday, January 29 at noon est. If you’d like to participate in the auction before it ends, please comment your bid in this Instagram post. The current high is $350 and shipping is included.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we remain tied to one another across distance. It shows up in small, persistent ways. In the sentence a friend once said that I still carry with me, one that resurfaces at unexpected moments. In the way my hands remind me of my mother’s, my hair looks like my aunts, the familiar shapes of my face returning pieces of my dad and my brothers. In the way I move through the world now, how I walk differently since falling in love.
This connection, despite distance, became the starting point for my latest series of intimately sized multi-panel works. The work grew out of a tension I keep returning to: connection and separation, as well as my body’s relationship to the world.
From there, my thinking began to reverse itself. If connection can persist despite distance, what does it look like to actively bring connection to things that are separate? How do we create spaces where individual voices can remain distinct while still speaking to one another?
I’ve come to realize this is at the heart of curation.
Curating, for me, has become a way of understanding and going deeper. It is a practice of placing works in conversation and allowing the space between them to matter just as much as the paintings themselves. It is a practice of attention, trust, and care.
This is why I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been working on my first curatorial project, which will culminate in a group exhibition on February 21, 2026, from 3 to 8 pm, in DUMBO at Third Door Brooklyn.
Titled You Can Cut All the Flowers, but You Cannot Keep Spring From Coming, the exhibition brings together five artists (including myself) whose work reflects on renewal, presence, and connection. When I first encountered this line, often attributed to Pablo Neruda, it felt like a truth I already knew in my body, about endurance, cycles, and what returns even after loss.
Presented within a movement studio in DUMBO, the exhibition includes works of paintings of light, abstract pieces made with raw pigment and salt, images of shared meals, abstract florals, and layered landscapes. Together, they consider what persists despite loss, division, and the harshness of winter.
Please let me know if you’re able to make it, I’d love to see you there! If you can’t make the opening on Saturday, the show will be up until April 19th
News & Upcoming Events
Saatchi named me a 26 Artists to Collect in 2026 🥹
I have six new paintings available through Tacit
Art Show Opening: Saturday, February 21 @ Third Door Brooklyn. See you there!
As always, thanks for being here and making space for art in your life
Gabrielle