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In Solace, his seventh solo exhibition at Callan Contemporary, Mitchell Lonas debuts a profoundly beautiful suite of incised and hammered artworks on painted aluminum panel, which capture moments of heightened connection with the natural world. The series grew out of meditations and readings he began in late 2019, as he studied texts by Michael A. Singer, and Eckhart Tolle related to the topics of consciousness and awareness. Last March, in the midst of this research, as he was taking a long walk near his home studio, he found himself suddenly confronted eye to eye with two deer. The hushed, …