UP next: WE BREATHE THE SAME AIR. A summer group show curated by The Pioneers.
THE PIONEERS CO-OP X RUSHA & CO https://www.thepioneers.la/public-rsvp-we-breathe-the-same-air
244 West Florence Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90003
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Public Reception 6:30 - 9:30 pm
I have always been fascinated by the dreamy atmospheres people make together in the arts, the occult currents of aesthetic knowledge that move through cities, friendship, co-work, studios, and the Internet. We Breathe the Same Air grows out of that interest.
I am pleased to invite you to the public opening of the exhibit at Rusha & Co. Gallery curated by The Pioneers Co-Op, with bites and beverages by Michelin Bib Gourmand chef and visual artist Natalia Pereira. The project brings together works by Kenneth Anger via Sprüth Magers Gallery, Catherine Corman, Emma Gray, Jon Pylypchuk, Rebekah Rubalcava, myself Saul Appelbaum in collaboration with Artists Artists, Danita Nuchsawat Appelbaum, Santiago Evans Canales, Oceana Celeste, Elodie Goldberg Jacquemain, Hyungi Park of Goyo, Natalia Reyes, and writing by Susan Aberth, a small constellation where some of this collective dreaming converges.
Emma Gray
My work sits at the meeting point of portraiture and landscape, organised by the four elements: earth, air, fire, water. I’m interested in what these elements do between a human figure and the natural world. How life organises itself through them.
The paint often drips because that’s how I see reality. It merges. Water falls from sky, becomes vapour, becomes water again. Nothing holds its edge for long. What’s seen and what’s felt aren’t opposites, they’re the same substance.I start with little or nothing. Sometimes a sketch, a rough direction. Then it becomes a dance of create and destroy. The paintings that start out beautiful in one flush are the ones I distrust most. Too easy. Those are the ones that make me climb mountains in bravery, that demand I go on a journey with the painting rather than arrive with it in hand. Sometimes that journey is bloody.
Formally and otherwise, the painting tells me what it wants. I remove. I add. Underneath the painting you see is a lot of psychic detritus that may or may not have led to an answer. I’m listening for what it knows that I don’t yet know.
The portraits can only be of people (or trees..) I love or admire. We psychically connect, and we’re done.
What is this painting for. What am I learning, in myself. Will it ever end?
“Though I walk throught the Valley of the Shadow,” 40 x 50” oil on canvas. Emma Gray 2025
Hello and welcome! Changes ahead. I am painting again, my gallery is now my painting studio.
Still working with artists in the meditation studio and mentoring with EmmaGrayHealing - please find the archive of Emma GrayHQ /Five Car Garage on this site.
Still working with artists in the meditation studio and mentoring with EmmaGrayHealing - please find the archive of Emma GrayHQ /Five Car Garage on this site.