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Hooks-Epstein Galleries presents "Golden Hour", a summer group exhibition bringing together three contemporary artists—Angel Oloshove, Liv Johnson, and Gaby Hurtado-Ramos—whose distinct visual languages collectively evoke golden hour as both a visual experience and a threshold between states of being. Through a captivating multi-medium dialogue, the artists explore transformation across material, environmental, and social contexts. Infused with the warmth and sentiment of summer, "Golden Hour" reflects on the lingering quality of longer days and those brief moments when light softens, perception shifts, and the familiar appears newly illuminated.
"GOLDEN HOUR" OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, June 27, 2026 from 5:00-8:00PM
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Saturday, July 18, 2026 from 11:30AM-1:00PM | Artist Conversation at HEG
Liv Johnson in Conversation with Glassell School of Art Instructor, Robert Ruello
2026 ARTIST STATEMENT:
Liv Johnson’s work focuses on the destabilizing effect of familiar surroundings becoming alien through environmental change. Drawing on depictions of idealized backdrops and curated settings, Johnson's imagery explores disruptions to presumptions of paradise with glimpses of encroaching phenomena. Figures are absent from the scene but they have dressed it. The landscape now asserts itself as the active entity with aggressively verdant vegetation and fermented color. Patterns, both organic and man-made, underpin the unpredictable quality of these events. These works represent a gathering of uncanny settings and intangible currents leading toward a pinnacle in which transformative action can be manifested.
