Gana Art LA is pleased to present the group exhibition How The Trees See The Stars. This gathering of artists illuminates visionary ways of seeing the world. The artists in this show explore our connection to nature, human- animal symbiosis, otherworldly landscapes, cosmic curiosity, and enigmatic mystical forms. Hypnotic, enchanted visual experiences are alive in works that evoke an animistic sense of life force that permeates all things. Caris Reid (b. 1983) captures the ethereal in a pair of peacocks, adorned with intricate details in a lush landscape brimming with flowers beneath a star-studded sky. The majestic birds serve as intermediaries between the terrestrial and the celestial, becoming vessels to mine the spiritual and contemplative potential of painting. Sarah Alice Moran’s (b. 1982) paintings offer a poetic, allegorical investigation of animal symbolism and feminine power. Her Red Knight is an atmospheric dream of a sword-wielding rider on a zebra, and her Star Gazer explores the tigress archetype in a star-dazzled nocturnal scene. Ben Sanders’s (b. 1989) luminous canvases with meticulous paint handling suggest a hybridization of the botanical and the cosmic. His enigmatic forms evoke a familiar connection to nature, yet with a sci-fi or psychedelic otherworldliness, emitting an enchanted glow. Andrew Schoultz (b. 1975) employs meditative, repetitive linework in vibrational optical paintings that pulse with energy. His depictions of owls, snakes, trees, and landscapes, informed by esoteric knowledge, provide a distinct and thrilling visual experience. Hiejin Yoo’s (b. 1987) transforms personal records of daily life into paintings. Mundane events and experiences, selected according to the artist’s intention, unfold into semi-figurative paintings. Layers of starry sky, grass, and foliage merge in an interplay of shadow and light as the hands seem to weave an alternate reality. Ross Simonini (b. 1981) presents joyous, hallucinatory scenes, incorporating sigils and eccentric techniques— such as painting with his foot rather than his hand —to propose art as a spiritual and mystical practice. Through an alchemy of life-source materials, egg tempera, and casein milk paint, his works breathe with an animistic energy. Ceramicist Jude Pauli (b. 1971) stacks geometric forms into towering totemic sculptures, combining stoneware and steel. Like otherworldly figures, her sculptures also evoke an ancient enigmatic language like petroglyphs. The alchemy of earthy materials in her works suggest a living consciousness embedded within earth, stone, and clay. Aaron Johnson (b. 1975) uses a color field stain technique, embracing paint’s fluid and unpredictable nature. This action-reaction process treats paint like a force of nature, revealing encounters with ethereal nature spirits, glowing from within with orbs of color and light. This exhibition was curated by Aaron Johnson, in collaboration with Gana Art. Exhibition opens November 23rd and runs through January 5th.