Using a luminous palette of vivid orange, ethereal pinks and blues, and neon purple, Sarah Thibault depicts trees, mountains, and volcanoes as embodying a vast range of human emotion and spirtuality. A central series of three tree paintings are based on studies she made of the McFall Oak while hiking in Glendale’s Deukmejian Wilderness. Threatened by the Station Fire of 2009 – LA County’s largest ever wildfire – the majestic 150-year-old oak was heroically saved by firefighters. Named in honor of the city manager who coordinated the rescue effort, the tree stands as a testament to bravery and marks a rare instant where nature’s gifts were both recognized and valiantly preserved. Thibault’s reverent homage imbues the oak with a kind of talismanic power and powerful mysticism. 

Dreamsong is also pleased to present Alexa Horochowski’s Cochayuyo in the Sculpture Garden at the Dallas Art Fair, curated by Sara Hignite. The frozen strands of Cochayuyo (2014/2024), cast from a bull kelp specimen found on the Pacific coast of Southern Chile, harken to the ocean’s ceaseless flux. According to the artist, “Bull kelp (Durvillaea Antartica), or cochayuyo as the local Chileans call it, attaches itself to the rocks at the edge of the Pacific where its tendrils sway dramatically and erratically in the aggressive surf like submerged Medusas with heads of living snakes.”