The Value of Heirloom Art for Future Generations

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in different ways, but all share a sensitivity to the fleeting: the ignored image, the half-remembered location, the unsteady boundary in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful but insistent meditation on how suggesting accumulates in common life.

Taken together, rendered in her unique painterly style, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes demonstrate how a common life, when taken a look at from a specific perspective, starts to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages describe the fragmentary nature of memory and meaning, calling photographic reality into question by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Stabilizing systematic precision with a distinctly human, necessarily imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are lighthearted abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings give physical forms to images that we typically see via a screen andrapidly forget, such as stock photos and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her unique language hazy, misshaped, subtly unsettling shows the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world filled with images that seems to appear and vanish ever-more rapidly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides them a 2nd life in which they become permanent. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a certain ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and development from all over the world within a distinct visual language. They locate the viewer within landscapes that feel unlimited with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unknown, these images are deeply tranquil, inviting you to savor the easy pleasures of a perpetually twilit, pastoral world.Llus-Carles Peric Cap a La Calma, 2014 The scenes that Bianca MacCall paints a train window reflecting the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible car hidden by an ochre-yellow drape appear intentionally strange. They make me believe about the simultaneous absurdity and beauty of the world in front of me, considering familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Continuous Motion, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. If you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you might see it alter in genuine time. The unclear, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.