Place in Translation
May 9, 2026 - June 5, 2026
Opening: Saturday 9th of May 2026 4PM - 6PM
Artspace Warehouse presents Place in Translation, a group exhibition in which painting becomes a record of visual conviction. Each artist meets the landscape through a distinct set of instincts, allowing color, form, and spatial rhythm to emerge through atmosphere, emphasis, and feeling. Together, the paintings show how differently landscape can be perceived and pictorially resolved.
Painting becomes a way of tracing how experience settles into image. Observation remains present, yet it arrives transformed by memory, sensation, and duration. A place lives here as something absorbed: light thickens into atmosphere, color becomes emotional temperature, and form carries the weight of what was noticed, lingered with, and inwardly retained. The works share a commitment to representation, though each shows that representation itself can hold feeling, delay, and the afterlife of perception.
Amber Young draws from the rural landscape of her upbringing on Canada’s east coast, returning to its forests, flowers, and water reflections as recurring points of focus in her work. Rooted in firsthand encounter, her paintings absorb weather, stillness, and nearness into the image itself. Memory remains active in reshaping perception as the subject is registered and returned to the canvas. Fondness, recollection, and the bodily memory of inhabiting those spaces continue to shape how they resurface in her paintings.
Dana Cowie builds her landscapes through thick, quilted passages of paint, where barns, fields, and rolling hills emerge from clustered color and shifting planes. Her stylized palettes condense each setting to the elements that register most vividly, letting color carry the mood and temperature of the scene. Composition follows that same pull, widening into panorama or narrowing toward a single motif according to where her perception settles. The landscape arrives in distilled form, preserving the atmosphere and emotional character that first gave it shape.
Katharina Husslein’s landscapes draw their energy from a tension between structure and sensation, where painterly control gives way to an immediate experience of light, movement, and color. Her impressionistic surfaces seem to hold a scene at the point of greatest intensity, when saturation, motion, and fleeting radiance are felt all at once. In that compression, observation remains intact while the image takes on the vivid emotional weather that makes a moment stay with you.
Maria C. Bernhardsson reshapes landscape through bold color, tilted geometry, and layered composition, giving houses, streets, hills, and waterways a logic that belongs to the painting as much as to the place itself. Angles sharpen, colors brighten, and forms press closer together until the scene takes on the clarity of a place organized by warmth, comfort, and visual affection. Her landscapes hold onto the familiarity of place while giving greater weight to the color, form, and emotional charge through which it continues to be remembered.
Susan Gale approaches landscape and cityscape through a language of emotion, using heightened color, pointillist texture, and simplified composition to translate everyday places into something more vividly felt. Her paintings hold onto the quiet mystery of light while exaggerating palette, framing, and surface, allowing a familiar setting to take on a more charged and subjective presence. In that shift, the image becomes a record of what a place impressed upon her, distilled through sensation into its most resonant visual terms.
Since the opening of Artspace Warehouse in 2010, the gallery continues to be an industry leader in affordable, museum-quality artworks making collecting art accessible and budget-friendly. With one gallery in Zurich and two galleries in Los Angeles, Artspace Warehouse specializes in guilt-free international urban, pop, graffiti, figurative, and abstract art. The expansive 5,000-square-foot space offers a large selection of emerging and established artists from all over the world.
