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Eleven small oil pastel paintings on linen of remembered and imagined desert landscapes, in Daniel Gibson’s third solo show at the gallery.

The title names land Gibson owns on the Mexican border in San Diego County, and one of the thirteen bands of the Kumeyaay; granite boulders in the pictures recall the stone mortars they used to grind acorns and seeds.

Made partly through automatic drawing, the scenes also reflect his new fatherhood, with a recurring desert dove, his daughter’s namesake, and an artist’s palette that turns into a head, a rock or an object held up to the sky. The works hang in a tight row, like the pages of an accordion book.

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