In Weber’s expansive oil paintings, floral patterns weave colors across the canvas, with botanical details drifting in and out of focus through splashes of kaleidoscopic light. Her work depicts an exalted version of the natural world, one filled with illumination and lush growth. The tangled foliage intertwines with figurative shapes but resists forming a conventional sense of space; it remains undefined and fantastical.

Reflecting on her paintings, the artist writes, “In Secret Song I was thinking about light reflections on water, glinting sunlight and shadows. In Dusky Day there is a golden hour haziness that almost completely engulfs a reclined figure in the upper right side of the composition.” Weber’s sensitivity to the qualities of light, and her ability to use it to evoke specific environments or times of day, provide a rich sensory experience for the viewer. Figures and flora, bathed in shared light and treated in the same fluid washes of color, become kindred elements in the ecoscape.

Matt Wedel (b. 1983, Palisade, Colorado) has exhibited his work widely, most recently in the solo exhibitions Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris at the Toledo Museum of Art (2023) and Matt Wedel: On the Verge at the Louisiana State University Art Museum (2019). His work is held in collections and museums internationally, including the Clay Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; and the Long Beach Museum of Art, California. He earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and his MFA in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach, in 2007, studying under Tony Marsh and Kristen Morgin. In addition to his studio practice, Wedel has been an educator, holding faculty positions at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives and works in Athens, Ohio.