Sanctuary

Two painters in productive tension. Teresa Smith paints the Douglas fir forests and salt water shores of the Pacific Northwest with the specificity of long attention — these are places she knows, painted by someone who has been looking at them for years. Britt Freda paints the animals those same places are supposed to protect.

The title names what both bodies of work share and complicate. Sanctuary as landscape, as cathedral, as ecology — and sanctuary as something under pressure. A collector standing in front of both bodies of work in August understands the tension without needing it explained. These works belong together.