Fall Salon 2026
Mia Katrina Guile, Olga Tobreluts, Nicole Santiago, Steve A. Prince, Dennis Harper, Art Rosenbaum, Brian Kreydatus, Ivan Plusch, Rebecca Shkeyrov, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Elizabeth Mead, Kristin Peyton, and others
Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, Virginia
Fall Salon 2026 brings together painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and works that move between image and narrative. Rather than organizing the exhibition around a single theme, the presentation develops through relationships between individual works: presence and absence, memory and observation, the constructed image, and the ways artists use space to suggest experiences that remain outside the frame.
At the center of the exhibition is a focused selection of recent paintings by Mia Katrina Guile. Her interiors, pools, landscapes, and architectural settings often appear initially familiar, yet become less certain through sustained looking. Figures are frequently absent, but human presence remains embedded in the spaces, objects, reflections, and arrangements they leave behind.
In No Reason to Leave, an empty poolside setting becomes a psychological space in which architecture, reflected light, palms, and unoccupied furniture suggest a narrative without resolving it. Guile’s paintings resist a fixed interpretation, allowing ambiguity and observation to remain central to the experience of the work.
Her paintings are presented in conversation with Olga Tobreluts, whose work draws upon classical imagery while moving it through digital culture, fragmentation, and contemporary visual language. In Diana, the profile associated with classical representation is reconstructed through geometric and organic forms, maintaining the authority of the original image while destabilizing its surface.
Nicole Santiago approaches pictorial space through another register. In works such as Accident, everyday objects, color, pattern, and accumulated visual information create a densely organized field in which the evidence of activity becomes a form of portraiture without depending upon the conventional figure.
Narrative and memory take on different forms in the work of Steve A. Prince, Dennis Harper, and Art Rosenbaum. Prince’s work connects historical experience, community, spirituality, and storytelling. Harper’s egg tempera paintings bring a closely observed material and psychological presence to the figure and its surroundings, while Rosenbaum’s paintings emerge from a lifetime of looking, teaching, music, travel, and engagement with communities and traditions.
Brian Kreydatus further extends the exhibition’s attention to the figure and to the physical act of image making, while works by Ivan Plusch introduce a more atmospheric and elusive pictorial language in which recognizable elements coexist with unexpected disruptions.
The exhibition also includes Rebecca Shkeyrov’s The Great Horse Massacre of 1312, a Tetra Pak engraving whose intimate scale and unconventional printing surface stand in contrast to the historical weight of its subject.
Photography by Jean-Daniel Lorieux adds another dimension to the presentation. His images move between fashion, portraiture, advertising, and fine art, using saturated color and carefully constructed settings to transform commercial imagery into highly controlled photographic compositions.
Work by Elizabeth Mead and Kristin Peyton further broadens the relationships within the exhibition, while poetry by Emily W. Pease introduces language directly into the gallery. Pease’s short poems appear throughout the space rather than as a separate literary presentation, allowing visual art and language to remain in conversation without collapsing their distinctions.
Fall Salon 2026 reflects Matney Gallery’s continuing interest in presenting artists across generations and disciplines while preserving the distinctions between their individual practices. The exhibition develops through close looking and through unexpected relationships between works, creating a presentation in which painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and language can occupy the same space without being reduced to a single explanatory framework.
Featured Artists
Mia Katrina Guile
Olga Tobreluts
Nicole Santiago
Steve A. Prince
Dennis Harper
Art Rosenbaum
Brian Kreydatus
Ivan Plusch
Rebecca Shkeyrov
Jean-Daniel Lorieux
Elizabeth Mead
Kristin Peyton