Margaret Chiaro - Nephology

Nephology is the study of clouds. It is also, in Margaret Chiaro's hands, a study of the figures who inhabit them — the dreamers, the fallers, the ones suspended somewhere between flight and free-fall. Across more than fifty oil paintings, Margaret builds skies you could step into: pink-bruised cumulus, blue afternoon air, the soft architecture of weather rendered with the patience of someone who has clearly spent a long time looking up. Into these skies she places people, and the question of what they're doing there — rising, falling, posing, dreaming — is left, gracefully, to the viewer. Margaret is a local artist, and Nephology is her most ambitious body of work to date. The show runs May 2 - May 30 at Covet Art Gallery in Oceanside. Come early, stay late, and look up. Contact gallery to purchase. Email CovetArtGallery@gmail.com

Nephology