Here comes the sun

JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present Here comes the sun, a radiant summer group exhibition celebrating light, renewal, and the emotional warmth of the season. Bringing together the distinct yet complementary practices of James Wolanin, Matt Bilfield, Rebecca Jack, Swan Scalabre, and Todd Kenyon, the exhibition explores summer as a state of mind–carefree, nostalgic, and alive with possibility. Summer carries its own rhythm: longer days that stretch gently into evening, saturated color, charged air, moments suspended between movement and stillness. In this dynamic presentation, each artist channels that seasonal atmosphere through figuration, abstraction, and bold chromatic interplay. Together, their works reveal how color, form, and gesture can evoke both optimism and introspection. James Wolanin’s nostalgic compositions feel cinematic and reflective, capturing intimate moments that echo the introspection of slow summer afternoons. Matt Bilfield’s crisp graphic sensibility distills familiar, panoramic forms into striking, color-saturated statements that feel both playful and refined. Rebecca Jack’s composed figures inhabit a poised stillness that suggests contemplation beneath the surface of leisure, her restrained palette unfolding with subtle warmth. Swan Scalabre’s poetic reinterpretations of women evoke summer as a luminous season of escape and reinvention, where time softens, memory shimmers, and the possibility of becoming something new quietly unfolds. Todd Kenyon’s fluid waterscapes move with a sense of tide and current, mirroring the season’s ebb and flow. Together, these five voices create a dialogue that feels immersive and transportive. Here comes the sun invites viewers to linger, to experience the emotional texture of summer in its fullness: its ease, its intensity, its quiet reflection, and its boundless horizon, offering a space to slow down, to breathe deeply, and to inhabit the generous space that summer makes possible.