Opening Reception: Friday, July 17th 6-9pm

SYNC Gallery is pleased to present Thresholds, a new two-person exhibition featuring the work of painters Karin Kempe and Helene Strebel. The exhibition brings together two distinct abstract practices united by a shared belief in painting as an open, ongoing conversation, between artist and canvas, and between artwork and viewer.

Karin Kempe's paintings draw on the expansive horizons and luminous skies of the American West. Working in acrylic enriched with metallic leaf, Kempe distills lived experiences and dreamlike states into abstract landscapes where mountains, sky, water, and flowering forms emerge through color and space. "Each of these paintings offers you a threshold," Kempe says, "an invitation into an abstract space." The addition of metallic leaf creates an intrinsic glow that animates each surface, making the threshold, as Kempe describes it, one that "opens both ways and gives each painting its own voice."

Helene Strebel's abstract paintings are rooted in the conviction that art should be timeless and that each work creates an open platform for the viewer's own perception. Her paintings are part of an ongoing body of work that has been exhibited in galleries and art shows across the United States and Europe and can be found in private collections on both continents. Most recently, Strebel's work was featured at the Florence Biennale in Italy.

Together, Thresholds invites visitors to pause at the edge of the familiar and step into something felt rather than named.

Banner Image: Karin Kempe, “Cloud of Spring.” 30 x 30.