04/17/2026
Berggruen Gallery is proud to announce 'A Tiny Radiance In a Dark Place,' an exhibition of new work by Darren Waterston. This show marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
The gallery will host an Artist Conversation with Darren Waterston and Timothy Anglin Burgard, Distinguished Senior Curator and Curator in Charge of the American Art Department, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Artist Conversation: Thursday, May 7, 4:30 PM
Opening Reception for the Artist: 5 – 7 PM
'A Tiny Radiance in a Dark Place' will be on view from May 7 – June 25, 2026
While Waterston has long probed the tensions between representational and abstract forms within the genre of landscape painting, this exhibition represents deeper delving into abstraction. In each painting, the viewer encounters a profound sense of movement. Floating fields of color act as ethereal expanses, enveloping subtle figuration drawn from nature, such as trees and mountains. Sweeps of color and light ripple like sonic waves. As Waterston allowed music to inform his paintings, subtle shifts emerged in the rhythm of gesture, the envisioned colors corresponding to notes, the forms that arose, and even in his application of paint.
Artwork details: All artworks by Darren Waterston, 2026, oil on wood panel; [1] 'Hymn to St. Cecilia', 72 x 60 inches; [2] 'Channels and Winds no. 2', 36 x 36 inches; [3] 'After Joy', 20 x 18 inches
