Danielle Roberts, Samantha Joy Groff, & Andrea Nakhla
GROUP EXHIBITION
MIDNIGHT
SOLO EXHIBITION (MAIN GALLERY)
EXHIBITION DATES: 20TH OCT 2021 to 10TH DEC 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: SAT, NOV 20TH FROM 7:00 - 9:00 PM
GALLERY HOURS: TUES - SAT / 1 PM - 6 PM
NEW IMAGE ART. 7920 SANTA MONICA BLVD. LOS ANGELES. CA. 90046

New Image Art is pleased to present Midnight, a group exhibition featuring paintings by Danielle Roberts, Samantha Joy Groff, and Andrea Nakhla opening Saturday, November 20th, 2021 from 7 PM to 9 PM.

Dusk
Daylight retreating as night draws near
Shadows lengthening until they vanish
Melting into one big darkness
Creeping forward.
Evening
Glowing windows place houses
Various sizes, colours, shapes, height
Country lanes fading unlike town where
Street lights belch their brilliance down
Each illuminating their own circumference
Bringing a bit of day to the darkness
Midnight
Nearly silent the heavy darkness engulfs
Most things, obsidian shadows spread
Their cloaks far and wide over all in their path
House indistinguishable from hedge or tree
All that remains is darkly silent and brooding
Small hours
Soft light oozes from the eastern horizon
A gentle orange glow spreading like marmalade
Across toast dragging the new day forward
Imperceptibly crawling inch by silent inch

~Words by Lynn

Midnight centers three artists who forge twisted interiors and ominous reflections of their nuanced realities. Danielle Roberts uncanny atmospheric paintings are lined with a longing glow, where the lonesome and the austere take main stage. Her illuminated figures are embedded in dark domestic environments under a baroque veil, where shadows seethe. Roberts limited acidic palette is shockingly acute, the unsettling world she envisions is a kin to the allegorical works of Samantha Joy Groff. The eerie luminescent ambience in Groff’s paintings of the abject, feminine, and religious is weighted in the surreal. She creates depictions of contemporary Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonites, where her aim is to reveal the divine nature in the earthly grotesque. Groff’s supernatural tones amplify the bizarre, a word which is indicative of Andrea Nakhla’s paintings. Nakhla delves into the abyss, where dream like states of the mind come alive in her simulation style paintings. She gouges the non-sensical and charts into the unknown. Together, all three artists affirm the mystification of the obscure.