Artist Ayelet Gal-On does not just paint; she builds, layering oil, acrylic and plaster on canvas. Gal-On's signature subjects for "Taken by the Wind, Swept by the Light," her upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery 9 in Los Altos, are white dresses that appear to hang on a line, defying the stillness of the canvas. "I love the process of playing with color," says the artist.
In Troels Carlsen's exhibition Alt flyder - Everything flows - nothing is permanent, and everything is connected. Flora and fauna are quite literally intertwined in Carlsen's large tableaus, often painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores. Dynamic, dancing skeletons with bodies of radiant green springy stems and lush leaves sprout blackberries and pink wildflowers, surrounded by bumblebees. Bodies, bees, flowers and fruit are interdependent in an ancient biological choreography.