Art has always offered that kind of escape…a doorway into worlds shaped by curiosity, wonder, and imagination. It has a way of gently pulling us out of the everyday we all know and into spaces where imagination can take the reins. This weekend, Haven Gallery invites us to pause and step into the stories unfolding within new collections from Marc Le Rest, Stephanie Law, Chris Becker, and Mall.
From quiet reflections to vivid, dreamlike immersion, each body of work allows personal interpretation and connection that ignites the dreamer within. We’re reminded of how naturally art draws us in and allows us to see the world differently even for a little while.
Marc Le Rest | Stephanie Law | Mall | Chris Becker
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 6-8pm
Reception with Stephanie Law and Chris Becker
Exhibition Dates: June 27 – July 26, 2026
Haven Gallery
50 Main St., Northport, NY 11768 | ph. (631) 757-0500
To inquire, please contact Erica via email info@havengallery.com
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.
Marc Le Rest, Icones
Haven Gallery is pleased to present a collection of ten new paintings from French artist Marc Le Rest for his fourth solo show, “Icones”. “Icones” utilizes Le Rest’s brilliant play of vibrant hues against gold leafed backgrounds to honor and commemorate the regality of his icons or sitters. Familiars accompany his sitters adding a playful and symbolic spin to a contemporary approach on historically inspired portraiture.
About Marc Le Rest
Born in the remote Armorica in France, Marc Le Rest turned his back in his early age to a promising career within the Holly Church and dedicated himself to the Arts and the kingdom of lingerie in Paris. But soon, he deserted the french capitale for New York, where he became an acclaimed garden gnomes designer. After a while he abandoned his decorative dwarfs to settle down among a bunch of drug dealers in Mexico, from where he flew to Bollywood, hoping to break through in Indian cinema. In vain.
So he withdrew along an Angels Bay back in Armorica and completely gave in his penchant for scabrous old ladies and lilliputian geishas, to whom he devoted three illustrated books. But he had to rush away from his ocean retreat and went hiding up the Black Mountains where he ended up by taking care of the dead people. And there, stroke by a sudden compulsion, he undertook to decorate with lace, penis and sumos, bodybuilders and alligators, and quantity of others harmless creatures.
In the same life, Marc Le Rest contributed as a textile designer to the collections of Hermès, Armani, J.P. Gaultier, Sonia Rykiel and Etro in Europe, but also collections of the major home furnishing textile companies in the United States.
Stephanie Law, Sibylline Songs
Northport, NY– Haven Gallery is pleased to present “Sibylline Songs”, a solo exhibition of new work by California based artist Stephanie Law. “Sibylline Songs” is Law’s fifth solo show with the gallery and will include twenty-eight new watercolor paintings that explore the artist otherworldly narratives with an emphasis on prophecy and enigma. Law’s paintbrush dances and sings as she brings her characters and worlds to life with a swirls of color and resonances of magic. Her realms enchant yet provoke thought and admiration for the beauty and purpose of the natural world as humans develop their own tales of mythology and legend as timeless allegories.
Stephanie Law’s work is an exploration of mythology mixed with her personal symbolism. Her art journeys through surreal otherworlds, populated by dreamlike figures, masked creatures, and winged shadows. The fantastical permeates through the visions rich with a visual language of metaphor, and a sense that reality is grander, more beautiful, and more laden when viewed with a slower appreciation.
Archetypes, the basis for the universal appeal of mythological concepts, are one of the defining inspirations for her imagery. This is mingled with the movement of dance. Stephanie has been a dancer for almost two decades, and she uses that experience of how the human body moves and emotes to create a bridge into her artwork so that not only do the humans dance across the page, but the branches of her trees move with a sinuous grace, and the arrangement of inanimate elements has a choreographed rhythm and flow.
Growing up in California, Stephanie has been surrounded by the wealth of natural inspiration all around her. The twisting boughs of live oaks from the hills near her home insinuate themselves into her paintings. The chaos of Nature’s wild growth, and conversely the beauty of decay, echo in the textures and fractal patterns of her work.
Stephanie showcases her watercolor paintings in gallery exhibitions, and in published volumes. She is author of Undying Tales – Mythologies of Creatures on the Verge of Extinction, the Dreamscapes watercolor series, the Shadowscapes Tarot, and the Verdance Tarot, as well as being featured in games and children’s books. Her botanical art has been showcased in internationally juried exhibitions at botanical gardens and arboretums.
Mall, Unravel
Northport, NY— Haven Gallery is pleased to present a new collection of work from Philippines based artist Mall for her fifth solo show at the gallery entitled “Unravel”. Mall’s solo show features fifteen new paintings focusing on her female characters in playful settings inspired by puzzles and anime that offer deeper levels of thought and emotion. Puzzles require thought and decision making and serve in Mall’s new collection as representatives of her figures own decisions and approach to life. “Unravel” invites the viewer to play along with Mall’s narratives as each play unravels conception and apply strategy and contemplation to their own lives a being.
About Mall
Mall is a fine artist living and working out of La Union, Philippines. Her multimedia paintings and drawings fuse the world of dreams, magic and storytelling together to create unique worlds full of color, splendor and design.
Chris Becker, Castles in the Sky
Northport, NY–Haven Gallery is honored to present New York based artist, Chris Becker, for his second solo show, “Castles in the Sky”, at Haven Gallery. “Castles in the Sky” features a collection of nine meticulously rendered graphite drawings of surreal skyscapes featuring the artists unique rendering of architectural hot air balloons. Ethereal sky bound vessels dreamily navigate through waves of clouds as passengers look out from their airships into the vast empyrean atmosphere. Becker continues his skillful use of graphite, creating monochromatic landscapes full of depth and wonder; a cinematic and timeless air is captured through his soft approach of medium, further aiding the ageless nature of human ingenuity and dreams.
“Castles in the Sky” Artist Statement
There’s something magical about old architecture. Classical, Gothic, Beaux Arts, and all their brethren. We can feel the magic when we’re in a place that was built with rich artistry and care. Architecture enriches our environments so they are more than their function alone. In the realms of the surreal, architecture can embellish any forms and function that we can dream of. We can make them fly. We can make them our peaceful retreat or our vessel of adventure. They can be a lookout toward a tranquil horizon, or a means for us to journey beyond it, following our reveries, daydreams, and all our flights of fancy.
This collection combines two things that stir my imagination the most; beautiful old architecture, and vibrant skies. I started exploring these ideas over 20 years ago in various doodles, digital art, and drawings.Over the years I’ve riffed off one idea after the other, and this collection has been the latest culmination of that process.
About Chris Becker
Chris Becker is an artist and software engineer, who once dreamed of being an architect, based in New York City. He enjoys exploring surreal, fantastical forms that spark the imagination and conjure thoughts of dreams and strange new worlds. His art is often inspired by classical architecture, technology from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the wealth of natural wonders to be found everywhere between the earth and the sky. Some of the art he most enjoys include the great vibrant landscapes of the Hudson River School, photography from the early 20th century, and the work of artists such as Hugh Ferriss, M.C. Escher, Yoshitaka Amano, as well as other contemporary fantasy and steampunk artists.
As a self-taught artist, Chris was inspired to paint at the age of 7 after watching Bob Ross on TV. Over the years he picked up digital art, and then settled into working primarily with graphite on paper and panel. Chris grew up in upstate New York and went to college in Buffalo, NY where he studied cognitive science and computational linguistics. He has worked in the technology industry for nearly two decades while developing his artwork on the side.
