Statement:

Night Gallery is pleased to announce Rare Earth, a group exhibition featuring work by Marcel Alcalá, March Avery, Hayley Barker, Ross Caliendo, Josh Callaghan, Sean Cavanaugh, Cynthia Daignault, Gracie DeVito, Catherine Fairbanks, 

Jane Freilicher, Lizzy Gabay, Samara Golden, Katayoun Hosseinrad, Daniel Ingroff, Wanda Koop, Lily Kwong, Tidawhitney Lek, 

Grant Levy-Lucero, Jake Longstreth, Kyle De Lotto, Kathryn Lynch, Mariko Makino, Claire Milbrath, Madeline Peckenpaugh, Dana Powell, Hayal Pozanti, LaRissa Rogers, Anna Rosen, Mars Singleton, Isshin Tanisaki, Ben Tong, Patrick Walsh, Lisa Williamson and Losel Yauch.

The exhibition will remain on view from June 6 through August 15, 2026.

Rare Earth gathers thirty-four artists whose work finds renewed life in the landscape, a subject as ancient as image-making itself and as urgent as the present moment.

A curatorial continuation of Night Gallery’s 2022 exhibition Shrubs, which surveyed the natural world as a site of persistence and duality, Rare Earth returns to the land with a renewed sense of possibility and an abiding conviction that the world as it is remains worthy of looking at, again and again.///

Rare earth elements are the hidden materials that comprise contemporary technology—making them a strategically vital and highly contested commodity in global geopolitical markets, embedded in screens, sensors, and satellites, and yet they are also, simply, earth. Minerals.

Matter underfoot. The exhibition holds these meanings in productive tension: nature as resource and nature as presence, the landscape as something extracted from and something we exist within.

Across diverse art practices, Rare Earth engages the natural world in ways that speak to our current moment, between abstraction and representation, intimacy and expanse.

Through a range of perspectives the works offer vital and multifaceted considerations of what it means to depict landscape now. These artists are united in their shared attentiveness to fragility and resilience, beauty and uncertainty, as reflected through sustained engagement with the land.  

Where Shrubs embraced a quality of quotidian resilience, Rare Earth tilts toward something more openly celebratory. The works approach landscape not as an elegiac subject but as a living one, revealing the coalescence and interplay between Earth and her inhabitants.

Artists from across the world bring their distinct eyes to coastlines, deserts, gardens, and skies in every state of weather.

In this plurality, Rare Earth posits the landscape genre itself as a form of community: one built not on proximity but on the common practice of turning toward the world and affixing it through observation.