Silver Moon

Parlour Room

Paul Inglis

Andy Mister

Gösta Peterson

Caroline Zurmely

Turn Gallery is pleased to present Silver Moon in our Parlour Room, a group exhibition featuring four artists. Stripped from an abundance of color, these works reveal a pure relationship to light and shadow: boundaries become sharpened and blurred, forms collide, and depth amplifies or negates its pictorial frame. Spanning a diverse array of mediums-including photography, pastel, printmaking, and nail polish -the featured artists demonstrate how artistic constraint can elevate visual storytelling and establish its own distinct presence.

Paul Inglis works in printmaking as well as wooden forms. Rooted in observing and abstracting the natural and urban landscape, Inglis taps into a world of joy and play through chiseled shapes and kaleidoscopic horizons. By shrinking and simplifying the natural landscape into a minimalist microcosm of his own, Inglis engages the psychological effects of color defined by Wassily Kandinsky.

Andy Mister investigates the boundary between mechanical and manual reproduction. Expanding his technique of pastel on linen, he now layers fluid acrylic washes onto unprimed linen before drawing over them with pastel —a process which distills a balletic atmospheric and conjures a "soft realism." Working with images including candles, landscapes, floral arrangements, and other quotidian objects, Mister's subjects softly emerge from a monotone ground, creating an ethereal effect on a timeless plane.

Caroline Zurmely draws from fashion photography, tabloid imagery, and beauty culture. Her compositions isolate fragments of the body and luxury accessories through tightly cropped intimate viewpoints. Using nail polish as a primary medium, Zurmely transforms a cosmetic product associated with adornment into a painterly material, exploring ideas of desirability, surface culture, and the construction of visual identity through both image and material.

Gösta (Gus) Peterson, an innovative and progressive fashion photographer of the 1960s to 1980s, is known for breaking established barriers and challenging conventional approaches to fashion photography. A marked departure from his era's photographers, he brought models out of the studio and into the streets, creating graphic, spontaneous compositions with a reportage sensibility.