"Transitory Light" Opening Reception

Opening Reception: Sat, Jul 26 from 4-6pm
Exhibition Run: Jul 16-Aug 9, 2025

An accomplished architect, Silk has been painting for most of his life. He returns to his studio for his first fine art exhibition. This body of work explores the spiritual and ephemeral dimensions of the natural world, illuminating nature’s cycles of change, destruction, and rebirth through color, light, and intuitive abstraction.

Rooted in the artist’s deep fascination with the impermanence of the visible world, the works in Transitory Light evoke both geological forces and intimate observation. Earthquakes, erosion, dams, and development, both natural and manmade, are not just events, but metaphors for transformation. Through a balance of observation, memory, and imagination, Silk examines how moments of beauty arise out of flux.

“My goal is to enhance the probity of the moment,” the artist writes. “By focusing on a few elements and eliminating the extraneous, I aim to transform an idea into its own visual truth, not simply to depict what I see, but to capture its inner resonance.”

Working from photographs, sketches, and handmade maquettes, the artist allows each painting to evolve organically, responding to accidents, surprises, and shifts in momentum. This process-based approach imbues the work with a sense of presence and openness, where chaos gradually gives way to clarity.

The result is a series of paintings that function as meditative spaces, inviting viewers to contemplate the temporality of their own surroundings and to consider the tension between what is fleeting and what endures.