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Alchemies of Place
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THE ARTISTS
Alchemies of Place
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Alchemies of Place
DATES
January 23 – March 6, 2026
LOCATION
COL Gallery
Waterfront Plaza
San Francisco
ARTISTS
Lynne Drexler
Claire Falkenstein
Ashley Garrett
Deborah Hede
Suzanne Jackson
Terran Last Gun
George Morrison
Anna Grace Nwosu
Benjamin Saperstein
Joan Snyder
Vivian Springford
Joan Tanner
Gina Werfe
Jonas Wood
A cross-generational group exhibition featuring works by Lynne Drexler, Claire Falkenstein, Ashley Garrett, Deborah Hede, Suzanne Jackson, Terran Last Gun, George Morrison, Anna Grace Nwosu, Benjamin Saperstein, Joan Snyder, Vivian Springford, Joan Tanner, Gina Werfel, and Jonas Wood.
“Impressions emerge and intertwine in a process of making the work. Dream material, historical influences, things found and lost; all carry traces of human touch and imagination. The art balances between the personal and public; to coalesce into alchemies of place.”— Deborah Hede
The exhibition traces a pivotal shift in the history of painting: the moment when landscape ceased to function purely as representation and instead became a site of abstraction, metaphor, and subjective experience. From the grandeur of the Hudson River School to the fleeting impressions of plein-air painters, landscape has long served as a means to observe, document, and idealize the natural world. With the rise of modernism and the accelerating pace of industrialization, artists began to look inward—reflecting not how the world is, but how it feels. The result was a radical reimagining of the genre: land rendered not through likeness, but through gesture, rhythm, material, and sensation.
Across generations, the artists in Alchemies of Place approach land as psychological, spiritual, and embodied space. Together, their works ask: what remains of landscape when its physical markers disappear? In an era shaped by environmental precarity, Alchemies of Place reflects on loss, resilience, and the enduring entanglement between land and inner life—reminding us that landscape exists not only around us, but within.