{"id":271069,"date":"2025-11-09T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271069\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:58:16","slug":"5-standout-shows-to-see-at-small-galleries-in-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271069\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries in November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art<\/p>\n

\"Manuela<\/p>\n

In this monthly roundup, we spotlight five stellar exhibitions at small and rising galleries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Arboreal<\/a>\u201dDimmitt Contemporary Art<\/a>, AustinThrough Nov. 30th\"Grace\"Michael<\/p>\n

A father and daughter offer two visions of nature in paintings at \u201cThe Arboreal<\/a>\u201d at Dimmitt Contemporary Art<\/a>\u2014one sweeping and luminous, the other soft and impressionistic. Michael Dines<\/a> renders hazy, emotion-laden scenes; Grace Dines<\/a> traces the contours of branches and leaves with powdered pigment on paper.<\/p>\n

Michael\u2019s THE BLACK FIELD AT DEMSINS FARM<\/a> (2025) is a hazy landscape where trees emerge through a weathered surface. For the artist, his landscapes are more about how texture can make people feel immersed in nature. \u201cIt\u2019s not important to see the trees,\u201d Michael said to Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles<\/a>. \u201cI want the viewer of the painting to see and feel moisture in the air, or the absence of light.\u201d Meanwhile, Grace starts her paintings by photographing natural subjects, experimenting with focus and exposure to alter perception. She then transfers these images onto paper using layered powder pigments, creating textured works that contain soft, monochromatic silhouettes of organic forms.<\/p>\n

Based in South Carolina, Michael trained in fine arts at West Virginia University and Fairmont State College. His work has been exhibited at Atlanta\u2019s Fay Gold Gallery and Chicago\u2019s Peter Miller Gallery. Born in Atlanta and living in New York City, Grace holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University.<\/p>\n

\u201cConnected-home<\/a>\u201dSuppoment Gallery<\/a>, SeoulThrough Dec. 31st\"Suh<\/p>\n

Suh Hee Sun<\/a> begins her paintings by observing a city\u2019s skylines, paying particular attention to how houses and buildings scrape across the horizon at uneven angles. She redraws the buildings\u2019 silhouettes in crayon and pencil before layering, wiping, and tracing acrylic paint to create amorphous and gridded abstract forms. A selection of these architectural paintings is featured in \u201cConnected-home<\/a>\u201d at Seoul\u2019s Suppoment Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Connected-home<\/a> (2025), Suh renders a geometric house-like form in pink and red grids, intersected by fine lines that suggest structure and perspective. Transparent layers and erased marks give the surface a sense of depth, using urban architecture as templates for her abstract explorations. Like Agnes Martin<\/a>, Suh uses restrained geometry to evoke emotional balance and acts of quiet introspection within abstract art. <\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this repetitive process, traces of multilayered memories fill the canvas, leaving behind a refined emotional weight,\u201d the artist explained to Korean Spirit<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Suh trained in printmaking at Hongik University in Seoul and SUNY in New York. The artist has presented more than 30 solo exhibitions, most recently at Rho Gallery in Seoul in 2025 and Gallery 41<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cPOMPEII – x<\/a>\u201dGalerie BSL<\/a>, ParisThrough Dec. 20th\"Jimmy<\/p>\n

In his speculative works, Jimmy Delatour<\/a> imagines Pompeii survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. The French designer uses travertine, a type of limestone, and two different types of marble to create furniture pieces inspired by the famous ruins of the Italian city, resulting in eight sculptural furniture pieces for \u201cPOMPEII – x<\/a>\u201d at Galerie BSL<\/a> in Paris.<\/p>\n

In Pompeii-x M\u00e9ridienne <\/a>(2025), a reclining daybed made of layered marble and pale stone, Delatour replaces the traditional Roman materials, wood, and metal with elegant stonework. These stones are crafted in Italy by stone atelier Les Marbreries de la Seine and given faded finishes to cultivate a patina. Accompanying the furniture are Delatour\u2019s \u201cArtifacts\u201d wall works, which serve as fictional relics. Artifact A, Madame R\u00e9camier<\/a> (2025), a mixed-media image in a bespoke frame, features a woman reclining on the daybed in the show, creating a counterfactual imagined history for the furniture piece as if it came from historical Pompeii itself. <\/p>\n

After graduating from Paris\u2019s ESAG Penninghen in 2008, Delatour founded Delatour Design Paris. Over the years, his clients have included the Rodin Museum and the Paris Opera, among others. His furniture has been presented by New York\u2019s StudioTwentySeven and Australia\u2019s Freeman Gallery.<\/p>\n

Gallery Yukiko Nakajima<\/a>, OsakaThrough Nov. 18th\"Shigehiko\"Shigehiko<\/p>\n

A moon hovers over a pool; a sailor salutes an invisible horizon; a single tree glows under tiny stars. In Shigehiko Sasaoka<\/a>\u2019s palm-sized worlds, reality bends toward dreams in playful scenes evocative of the Surrealist<\/a> paintings of Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>. Osaka\u2019s Gallery Yukiko Nakajima<\/a> is featuring 13 of these tiny canvases in a solo exhibition named after the artist. <\/p>\n

The Japanese artist\u2019s miniature compositions stage encounters between the ordinary and the uncanny. In \u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u306e\u6761\u4ef6<\/a> (2017), a 7-by-7-inch painting, a gray stone floats midair between drawn curtains, its weight defying gravity in front of a painted blue sky. This work undoubtedly parallels Magritte\u2019s 1959 painting The Castle of the Pyrenees<\/a>, which shows a castle perched upon a floating rock. Meanwhile, in \u5341\u5b57\u5854\u306e\u671d<\/a> (2011), a fantastical white citadel radiates across a forest clearing, its symmetrical arms echoing a compass. Across these works, Sasaoka reconfigures Magritte\u2019s motifs of light, veils, moons, and impossible perspectives with his own gentle humor. <\/p>\n

Born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, in 1952, Sasaoka developed a lifelong practice around what he calls the \u201csize 0\u201d canvas, each of which invites close looking. <\/p>\n

\u201cA Trav\u00e9s del Agua<\/a>\u201dT\u00f6nnheim Gallery<\/a>, MadridThrough Nov. 19th\"Claudia<\/p>\n

Manuela de la Vega Castro<\/a> and Claudia Pons Bohman<\/a> both use water as part of their processes. De la Vega Castro paints directly onto smooth plates with watercolor, then presses paper over them to make one-of-a-kind prints. The paint spreads unpredictably, turning familiar forms into soft, abstract impressions. Meanwhile, Pons Bohman builds her paintings in slow layers of color, using water and light to create luminous acrylic landscapes. These two artists, who share a studio in Madrid, come together for \u201cA Trav\u00e9s del Agua<\/a>\u201d (meaning \u201cAcross the Waters\u201d) at T\u00f6nnheim Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In de la Vega Castro\u2019s Flores de pl\u00e1stico<\/a> (2025), pale splashes of pink and green appear like flower petals being washed away or dissolved by water. Pons Bohman\u2019s Arriba y abajo <\/a>(2025) moves in the opposite direction\u2014thick with atmosphere, it captures the shimmer of light on a dense tropical riverbank. Together, these two artists demonstrate the influence of water on their practices. <\/p>\n

Born in Madrid in 2002, de la Vega Castro devised her monoprint method while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. Pons Bohman, born in 1999 in Washington, D.C., studied art at Nyckelviksskolan Art School in Stockholm, the Barcelona Academy of Arts, and the Transforming Arts Institute in Madrid, before earning her MA degree from the Royal College of Art. <\/p>\n

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Maxwell Rabb<\/p>\n

Maxwell Rabb (Max) is a writer. Before joining Artsy in October 2023, he obtained an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Georgia. Outside of Artsy, his bylines include the Washington Post, i-D, and the Chicago Reader. He lives in New York City, by way of Atlanta, New Orleans, and Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art In this monthly roundup, we spotlight five stellar exhibitions at small and rising galleries. \u201cThe Arboreal\u201dDimmitt Contemporary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,124331,356,124332,75,29103,124326,124328,124330,124325,124329,124327,124333],"class_list":{"0":"post-271069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-claudia-pons-bohman","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-dimmitt-contemporary-art","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-exhibition-roundups","18":"tag-grace-dines","19":"tag-jimmy-delatour","20":"tag-manuela-de-la-vega-castro","21":"tag-michael-dines","22":"tag-shigehiko-sasaoka","23":"tag-suh-hee-sun","24":"tag-suppoment-gallery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}