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Ronchini Gallery is pleased to present Twelve Joyful Hours, the second solo exhibition of works by artist Richard Höglund at the gallery. Featuring fourteen new paintings, the title is inspired by the fourteen-step Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross, or the Way of the Cross, a series of images depicting the path of Jesus Christ leading to his crucifixion.

Twelve Joyful Hours is an open system of paintings, made either in cycles of small groups or individually, but exhibited together in groups of fourteen. The titles of the works are interchangeable because, as Barnett Newman put …