Alexander DiJulio is pleased to announce the opening of Night Work, a group exhibition focused on works which seek to find light in the darkness and invite the viewer to reconsider nighttime as a subject equally beautiful to its common sunnier counterpart. This show features artists Charis Ammon, Ross Bleckner, Eric Brown, Cekeg, Noel de Lesseps, John Joseph Mitchell, Emily Pettigrew, Jamel Robinson, Monica Serra, and Nick Weber.

The night is often associated with ideas of fear, mystery, longing, and the unknown, however the works here question these notions and instead propound concepts of intrigue, serenity, catharsis, and hopeful yearning. We see the soft filters of Charis Ammon’s Bodega Rain paintings where the artist, gazes through the rain-speckled windows of a neighborhood corner store at multi-floral bouquets—a beacon in the darkness. Emily Pettigrew portrays a figure gazing out over a dusky body of water, the curves of the body are tender and yearning and a night swim seems inevitable. Elsewhere we see nostalgic and comforting scenes as in John Joseph Mitchell’s scene of white hens pecking in a yard under moonlight or in the warmly lit street scenes from Nick Weber.

What changes when we view our world under a cloak of darkness or when things are quiet and still and we are left to confront our deepest selves? Through a selection of ten artist’s work we seek to understand the unknowable through paint, paper, and the picture plane.