This February, smoke the moon devotes itself to love's strange embrace: the antidote to numbness, the angel of madness, love overtakes and sanctifies the world around us. The gallery is honored to dedicate our main gallery to these infinite apparitions of love with a group show presenting the work of Daniella Ben-Bassat, Monica Berger, Edward Cushenberry, Ronan Day-Lewis, Alison Kruse, Diego Medina, Aaron Nemac, Lindz Redd, and Luke Van H. 

Philosopher Michel Serres calls angels our greatest modern mythic project. Defined by their mutable state as messengers (becoming visible, returning to invisibility), Serres argues that angels have been made manifest through our constantly growing methods and objects of communication. The cupidity of the artists’ role is illuminated throughout The Love Show. 

Translators of love in all its multitudes, the work in the show delivers a winged message from another place. Edward Cushenberry's playful polaroid paintings depict community vignettes indexed through graphic colors and a relaxed interpolation of form. Alison Kruse’s brushy, richly textured oil paintings evoke the interiority of love, becoming scenes of glimmering contemplation. Luke Van H’s digital-born sentimental daily objects are rendered in a pastel palette, twining themselves together as if in a secret and surreal garden. Lindz Redd molds ceramic sculptures into lilting, queer utopias - framing idyllic scenes and magic gardens with a meticulous hand. Each artist in the show takes their stance as a lover; of the world, of another, of form and play, and of great beauty. 

There are countless ways to experience the ecstatic nature of life around us. Love, be it the way light drapes itself over a mountain at dawn or the solace of deep friendship, gives us the fortitude to make the world new again. Artists are conduits, processing the experiential world around them and endeavoring to look and feel with a precise presence. The nine artists in The Love Show filter the light and darkness of the world with soft grace. To cultivate love amidst the sorrow of the world is a profoundly brave task.