Opening reception Friday, November 27, 5pm - 7pm. The exhibition will be on display through December 19, 2026
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”— G.K. Chesterton
Grace rarely announces itself. It arrives in the hush after snowfall, in the slant of late afternoon light, in the scrape of chairs as people gather around a table. It is there in the worn places, the mended things, and the small rituals that carry us from one day to the next. Quiet graces ask for nothing except our attention, and they are easily missed in the noise of ordinary life. Yet to notice one is already a form of thanks: a moment when we stop reaching for what comes next and recognize what has been given.
Quiet Graces brings together artists who find gratitude not in grand gestures, but in the often-overlooked moments and materials of daily life. Lee Price’s paintings of empty plates capture the stillness after a meal, when the food is gone but the warmth of having shared it lingers. Jeremy Mann’s exquisite small plein air studies offer a different kind of attention, honoring the fleeting beauty of a particular place and moment. Nicholas Herrera gives discarded metal new life, turning what others have thrown away into sculpture. Gregory Ferrand’s nostalgic scenes of Americana look back with affection at the familiar pleasures of American culture. Together, these works suggest that gratitude is a way of seeing, an invitation to pause and recognize the grace already around us.