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de boer (Antwerp) is pleased to present Gravity and Grace, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based painter Rachel Sharpe. The exhibition unfolds captivating narrative through cropped-in and meticulously detailed oil paintings on linen. Sharpe's canvases serve as narrative vignettes, portraying romantically charged depictions of everyday objects and uncanny spiritual moments.

A defining characteristic of Sharpe’s paintings is the use of ‘Dramatic Illumination’ or tenebrism; meaning a violent contrast between light and shadow in an intentional way, where darkness becomes a dominating feature …