Holly Johnson Gallery will present Thistle, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Gael Stack.

An artist whose work evokes both memory and the "gaps, sinkholes, and other chasms" found in our experiences, Stack is one of the most accomplished American painters working today. Her large canvases and smaller drawings use fragments of words and images, often layered over one another like a palimpsest, to create a visual language that explores the past's implacable hold on the present, with what is unknown and unspoken occasionally poking through.

Following the opening reception, the exhibition continues through December 20.