Crystalline Atmospheres:

Landscapes by Hilary Brace

OPENING: Saturday, February 28, 2026

PRIVATE ARTIST/MEMBERS RECEPTION: 4-5pm

FREE COMMUNITY RECEPTION: 5-7pm

on exhibit February 28 - April 19, 2026

Gallery Hours: Saturday/Sunday 12-4pm

Hilary Brace is celebrated for charcoal drawings that are modest in scale yet expansive in feeling—moody waves, drifting clouds, and richly theatrical weather rendered with quiet intensity. Writing about her work, The New York Times observed that “once in a while you come across an art of such refined technique that it seems the product of sorcery more than human craft…” Brace begins on a smooth sheet of polyester film that she darkens with charcoal, then works reductively—lifting and carving light out of the surface with erasers and custom-made tools. As Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight noted, the resulting imagery “conjures ephemeral poetics of light and space.”

Brace’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and a California Arts Council Fellowship. Her solo exhibitions have been reviewed in major publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, and The New Yorker. Her work has been exhibited widely in museums and academic galleries in California and nationally, including venues such as the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, the Riverside Art Museum, the Bakersfield Museum of Art, Scripps and Pomona Colleges, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, Real Artways, and the Frye Art Museum.