Trompe L'oeil Provocations: Group Exhibition

Opening Reception: July 10, 2025 from 5 to 7 pm

This summer, Praise Shadows brings together artworks by Lenka Clayton, Josephine Halvorson, and Daniela Rivera in a playful interpretation of trompe l'oeil, a practice in which the depiction of the object, or objects, tricks the audience into perceiving the created space as part of our realm. Translated from the French as “deceives the eye,” the selected artworks range from Clayton’s drawings made with an old typewriter, to Halvorson’s acrylic gouache on panel paintings of Massachusetts road signs, to Rivera’s meticulously rendered oil-on-canvas depiction of the iconic rug from Holbein’s 1522 painting The Ambassadors.