On a bright and crisp Northern California Sunday afternoon, Los Angeles-based artist Deborah Lanino’s exhibition of twenty-five paintings recently opened at the Blackfriars Gallery in Berkeley. Titled Reimagining: Faith, Hope and Love, the show opened on 22 September, a coincidental yet apt concurrence with the autumnal equinox, welcoming the viewer into a space marked by the softness, colour and light of Lanino’s works.
Devoted to preserving art and material culture related to the history of the Catholic Church, the Blackfriars Gallery, part of the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology in Berkeley, celebrates Lanino’s art now through December, focusing primarily on work that the artist has created over the past four years (2020-2024). Lanino began these paintings in 2020 as part of her own meditation on hope during the crisis of the global pandemic sweeping the world at that time.
