Last Saturday evening, Gallery Hijinks hosted San Francisco-based artist Pakayla Biehn’s solo show, (t)here. With this exhibition, she further pushes her technique of using oil on canvas to create her double-exposure photo realistic images, that really started to take stride for her Thinkspace exhibition earlier in the year (covered). The term “(t)here” refers to “a point where emotional complexity, dreams and reality are unified,” which can be used to describe the feel one gets from viewing her paintings that fuse dreamlike figures with the beauty of nature. In addition to the artwork, there was video installation (of which Pakayla provided the art direction) that captures the feeling her paintings have with live action and film editing (which can be viewed here). Also released for the opening was a limited edition giclee of the painting (shown above), All the time I was making this I was thinking of you.
Check out some photos from opening night after the jump…
