05/22/2026
Save the date for our upcoming exhibition, Between Day & Night, by Parisian artist Gilles Marrey.
Artist Reception with Gilles Marrey
St. Helena | Saturday, May 30 | 4 – 6pm
The paintings will be available for acquisition on May 28th.
“Entangled during the day, shadows and light separate from one another, each gathering within its own territory: the sky for one, the earth for the other. We say that “night falls,” though in truth it rises like a flood from the ground, submerging the city. This “terrestrial twilight” gradually lights up with a multitude of artificial lights: streetlamps, signs, car headlights, shop windows, cafés, restaurants, and the lamps in apartments turning on as evening approaches — small points of brilliance in the darkness, tiny stars in this inverted night sky. These fleeting yet intense moments are the emotions I sought to capture.
I spent a great deal of time drawing San Francisco and its surroundings in my sketchbooks. The time spent drawing on site is a time of absorption, during which one gradually grasps the face of a city: its structure, morphology, and expression, creating as much a portrait as an urban landscape.” - Gilles Marrey
