What are you doing this weekend? Set your sights on Sui Yumeshima, “The Howling”, Laverinne, “Time of Wonder”, Shannon Taylor, “Meet Me At the Rainbows End”, Cheryl Lee, “Collectors”, and group exhibition Aesop’s Fables all opening at Haven Gallery February 22nd! The emotional landscape of each collection sparks the imagination, and if you’re searching for inspiration… you’ve definitely found it.
With unique interpretations and intriguing themes, the distinct voice of the individual artist seems to whisper an irresistible call to expression where layers of curiosity, fantasy and visual storytelling unfold. Don’t miss the opportunity to delve into worlds that challenge the boundaries of everyday reality and perception, where you can explore and celebrate the depths of human emotion and experience it through the artistic lens of the creator.
View them in their entirety alongside all available inventory by visiting the gallery website! Searching for even more inspiration and feel like time travelling? Return and reflect upon past exhibitions and see what lifts your spirit.
Sui Yumeshima, Laverinne, Shannon Taylor, Cheryl Lee
Aesop’s Fables Group Exhibition
Opening Reception with Artists: February 22, 2025| 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 22 – March 23, 2025
Haven Gallery
50 Main St., Northport, NY 11768 | ph. (631) 757-0500
To inquire, please contact Erica via email [email protected]
About the Gallery //
Haven Gallery is run by Erica Berkowitz and Joseph Weinreb. The gallery first opened in 2015 in the Carriage House of historic Northport, NY. Within two years, the gallery doubled in size and expanded into the entire Carriage House building. Through their successful in-house exhibitions and presentations at art fairs both domestic and international, Haven opened a secondary location at 90 Main St., in 2020, during the height of the Covid pandemic. It was at that point, that Erica and Joseph knew it was time to find a permanent location for their artists. In January of 2022, they bought the building at 50 Main st., and opened its doors as Haven Gallery’s perennial home.
Haven Gallery’s focus is on exhibiting emotionally, intellectually and imaginatively driven, representational artwork that connects the audience and artist with universal axioms and passions. We work with both emerging and established artists who transcend their medium and subjects by exploring the world around them as well as the one within themselves.
Sui Yumeshima, “The Howling”
Haven Gallery is honored to present Japan based artist, Sui Yumeshima, for her second solo show, entitled “The Howling”, at the gallery. “The Howling” features a collection of new works that rework historical motifs and paintings, along with alchemical design, to create new mythologies fusing a western perspective of art with surrealistic tendencies found in Japanese subcultures. Legendary beasts mingle with anthropomorphic animals and Botticelli-esque females glow amidst magical night skies and verdantly fecund landscapes, creating a visual feast and timeless narrative, connecting the surreal with the material, and the past with the present.
About Sui Yumeshima //
Sui Yumeshima Graduated from university in Japan in 2013, her art carrier quickly took off when she got recognition from some of Japan’s top art galleries. Her unique style of mixing themes from both traditional European medieval themes and Japanese fantasy which she calls L.U.C.A. (Last Universal Common Ancestors), exploring alchemy, nature, animals, and the cosmos. Her unique style has gained her international recognition and her work has been printed in various Japanese art magazines. She has done Solo art shows mostly in Tokyo and Kyoto. In 2019 she moved to the United States and is continuing her carrier as an artist, having been accepted in the Beverly Hills art show and various group shows within the Los Angeles area.
Laverinne, “Time of Wonder”
Haven Gallery is honored to present Indonesia based artist, Laverinne, for her fifth solo show, entitled “Time of Wonder”, at the gallery. “Time of Wonder” features eight new vividly painted watercolor works dissecting the notion of time and the perspective to view its pendulum of experience and memory. Animals representing different passages of time and fortitude are used amongst fractal patterns, expanding one’s perception further, begging the viewer to readjust and reconsider their view on the fluidity and impression that is time.
Artist Statement //
The concept is about the time when you see everything arround you and then you see it’s wonder. Like the lucky traveler, that can travel to every place to see its wonder. Or when you look back to your past, maybe it’s dark and hard, but you realize that every journey is on the right timeline, and it makes you stronger and smarter.
And when you are looking ahead to the future, it gives you hope and makes you able to walk in peacefulness surrounded by the doves. And when you see the butterfly, you see its wonder in every color of in their wings that are born from its cocoon. And when you see the gentleness and unconditional love of the deer, you see the wonder of love. And the raven, with is darkness and its omen, still one sees it’s beauty.
About Laverinne //
Laverinne’s application of watercolor is delicate, almost gossamer, with bursts of contrast and color saturation, resulting in a gyration of reverie. Her jewel tone palette evokes gemstones, reminding one of a brooch or heirloom, dear to ones heart. Female figures dance with color and gradient, connecting to a world of symbiosis and flourishment. Highly ornate and detailed framework adorn and enrich the intimacy of each composition, encapsulating these precious moments as the unique treasures that they are.
Shannon Taylor, “Meet Me at The Rainbows End”
Haven Gallery is honored to present California based artist, Shannon Taylor, for her first show, entitled “ Meet Me at The Rainbows End”, at the gallery. “ Meet Me at The Rainbows End” features hand-cut paper sculptures painted and assembled in vintage compacts, creating miniature worlds full of minutiae detail and colorful narratives. “The Rainbows End” is often an undiscovered place but Taylor brings it to light in her treasure like miniatures, illuminating the beauty and brightness of nature and life.
About Shannon Taylor //
Shannon Taylor is a painter, illustrator, craftsman and educator based out of Oakland, California. She is the Assistant Chair of the Illustration Program at the California College of the Arts, and has also been the long-time Director of Art and Restoration at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland. Taylor exhibits her work extensively worldwide. Taylor’s client lists include Netflix, Bath and Body Works, Saylor Agency, Shondaland, Paragon Books, Monsa Publications, Edition One Books, Fashion Fights Cancer, Vote Equality and Artists 4 ERA among others. She has been interviewed on podcasts such as the Jealous Curator’s “Art for your Ears” and “Mad About Miniatures”, and featured on sites like Colossal and Beautiful Bizarre.
A highly prolific artist, Taylor has developed a style of watercolor that is distinctly her own, utilizing rich colors, layers of blending, dry-brushing, and pattern work, Taylor is constantly pushing and expanding on the possibilities of the medium. Often conjuring the decorative and figurative qualities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and aesthetic movement, Taylor’s work is an exploration of beauty. In her paintings, heavy indigo skies are filled with stars, and flowers bloom from the backs of languid, lovely women, and tiny worlds can be held in your hand; the world that Taylor has made is gilt, prismatic, and lovingly wrought.
“In the end it will be okay; if it is not okay, it is not the end.”
Cheryl Lee, “Collectors”
Haven Gallery is honored to present Florida based artist, Cheryl Lee, for her second show, entitled “ Collectors”, at the gallery. “ Collectors” features eighteen handmade sculptures of octopi, dragons, bats, snakes and snails as they travel to find and share unique treasures. One finds antiques and natural findings strapped and carried by each collector as they share the beauty and purpose of various objects and sources of life. A nostalgic memoir to our own connections with both inanimate and animate objects and the stories they hold for each of us.
Artist Statement //
Medium- clay, textiles, parchment, natural dyes, glass and metal findings.
From a young age, nature has coursed through my veins with an undying passion to create art. Countless hours spent in secret spots behind trees and Jungle leaves creating mud animals and twig furniture with leaf blankets inevitably lead me to clay.
This body of work I have named, ‘Collectors’ has long been a whimsical thought of mine. I loved collecting nature items as a child, and to be honest, I still do! Most of my findings are used in my artwork these days, but I still keep small treasures the earth places at my feet from time to time. Whether it is picking up a bluejay feather from the ground or finding a shell in a tidepool, it almost takes me back to my childhood… and I get to relive it through my children’s eyes as they fill their own collections.
I question the viewer this…what collections of things did you have growing up? Did you collect marbles, buttons, or beads? Rocks, shells, and arrowheads? Figurines, bugs, and bottles? Do you still have those collections today? Maybe there are special little things that make you happy that are stowed away in a box, or placed jar to see as you walk by. This collection of work makes me smile as I think of all the things that are being collected in the small corners of the world.
Aesop’s Fables Group Exhibition
Exhibiting Artists Include // Jolene Lai, Kristen Egan, Shelby Clark, Cirius Scion, Flor Padilla, Ronald Companoca, Valerie Savarie Eva Boneva, Ryoko Rio, Victoria Olt, Anna Wilson, Zoe Chigi, Cantik Bear (Aya Sakai), Joanne Robey, Zoe Chigi, Brittany Johnson, Domina, Valery Vecu Quitard, Grace Aldrich, Julia Jenkins
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