Thai Mainhard
Paradise
Born in Brazil and based in Hawaii, painter Thai Mainhard is naturally drawn to the rich patterns and textures of the jungle. Painting is an instinctive extension of Mainhard’s being. Her newest body of work explores colorful botanicals and their vessels. In each painting, tension builds as she captures the rich textures, vibrant colors, and lush patterns that comprise each emotionally rich, abstracted composition.
An intuitive painter, Mainhard is connected to each brushstroke, each slash of paint, and each composition. Beginning inwardly, her process employs sensation over concept, making each mark a lived moment and each painting an extension of herself. Painting for Mainhard is inseparable from life itself. Every gesture carries the imprint of her experience. Asked how long a piece takes to complete, she replies simply: “Since birth.” Her work unfolds as a continuous becoming—a mirror and portal where memory, identity, and imagination merge into an ever-expanding present.
Introducing Stephen Wilkes
In his series Day to Night, photographer Stephen Wilkes redefines the boundaries of photographic storytelling by collapsing time into a single, visually immersive experience. From a fixed point, Wilkes photographs a location for up to 36 hours, documenting the ever-shifting rhythm of light, movement, and life within a specific location. The result is a collection of up to 2,000 images, which he meticulously narrows down to 20-100. Through a careful compositional process, the selections coalesce into a singular image, inviting us to experience what Wilkes accomplished in 36 hours of photography.
Wilkes invites viewers into a world where morning, afternoon, dusk, and night coexist, revealing patterns and connections otherwise lost to linear perception. These epic large-scale landscape photographs stand at the intersection of fine art, documentary, and conceptual photography, offering viewers a new way to perceive time and place. Wilkes’s work bridges the narrative power of documentary with the aesthetic grace of fine art.
Images:
Grand Ritmo III
by Thai Mainhard
oil, oil crayon, and acrylic on canvas
40” x 30”
Lesser Flamingoes, Lake Bogoria, Kenya
by Stephen Wilkes
archival pigment print
34” x 64”, edition of 15
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