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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present Brooklyn-based painter Eleanor Ray’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Eleanor Ray distills light, atmosphere, and the mystery of actual places in small-scale, oil-on-panel paintings of landscapes and interiors. Each painting, rendered sparely, heightens the visual aspects of a place that persist in memory. Scale is not one-to-one in the size of the paintings or the time in which they are made; hours, or days, or weeks spent in a place continue to shape the attention long afterward, leading to paintings sometimes made much later. Distant …