Meyer Gallery's Summer Exhibition Series

ERIC G. THOMPSON: CLOSE TO HOME 
June 27 – July 10, 2025 
Opening Reception: Friday, June 27, 4–6 PM 

In Close to Home, Eric G. Thompson continues his meditative exploration of stillness and  interiority. Working in oil on panel, he constructs quiet compositions that center on domestic objects, solitary figures, and diffused natural light. His use of transparent glazing and muted tones creates a restrained luminosity, drawing attention not to the subject alone, but to the intervals between forms. Each painting is carefully calibrated—edges softened, space allowed to  breathe. Thompson’s realism is rooted not in replication, but in a refined sense of observation and quietude.

MILT KOBAYASHI: QUIET DRAMA 
July 25 – August 7, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, July 25, 4–6 PM 

With Quiet Drama, Milt Kobayashi presents a new series of figure paintings marked by subtle  tension and spatial restraint. His subjects, often women seen in private moments of reflection, are  rendered in oil with delicate brushwork and a palette that leans toward muted earth tones.  Kobayashi favors asymmetrical compositions and the suggestive power of negative space,  allowing the viewer’s attention to rest on posture, gesture, and atmosphere rather than narrative.  His surfaces are quietly layered, with each passage of paint carrying the memory of prior  decisions. The result is a body of work that feels self-contained, composed with precision and  quiet intensity. 

WILLIAM C. HOOK: SCENES FROM NEW MEXICO 
August 1 – August 14, 2025 
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 4–6 PM 

In Scenes from New Mexico, William C. Hook turns his attention exclusively to the northern New  Mexico landscape. These new acrylic works reflect a career steeped in structure, balance, and  restraint. Hook’s compositions are anchored by broad horizons and simplified forms, with light and color carefully calibrated to reflect the fleeting quality of the region’s atmosphere. The  paintings avoid sentiment while maintaining an emotional register grounded in clarity and place.  A longtime collaborator with Meyer Gallery, Hook continues to refine a visual language shaped  by sixty years of practice and a sustained relationship with the landscape he knows intimately. 

FRANCIS LIVINGSTON: INVESTED MAJESTY 
August 15 – August 28, 2025 
Opening Reception: Friday, August 15, 4–6 PM 

In Invested Majesty, Francis Livingston returns with a collection of new paintings that reflect his  ongoing engagement with the western landscape. These works are rooted in natural observation,  but shaped by a modernist sensibility that prioritizes structure, color, and atmosphere over literal  detail. Working in oil, Livingston simplifies form and emphasizes spatial relationships, allowing  shape and hue to guide the viewer through each composition. The result is a body of work that  feels expansive and quietly charged. 

Livingston’s palette moves fluidly between high desert light and deeper tonal harmonies,  capturing not only the physical features of the land but also the shifting moods that define it. His  influences remain visible—drawn from the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Impressionism, and  the western painting tradition—but his approach remains his own. These paintings do not seek to  document the landscape. They aim instead to hold its essence steady within the frame, translating  place into something elemental and lasting. 

Invested Majesty reflects an artist working with both clarity and confidence, attuned to the visual  rhythms of the natural world and the expressive potential of paint itself.