She Who Holds the Sun is a tribute to the creative process that came after the 2025 Eaton Fire which destroyed an entire exhibition of Pomonis's paintings, over a half decade of work destroyed overnight a burst of potential born from the ashes of lost work. Each painting in the exhibition takes a burned painting as its starting point, evolving in form and color into a transformational composition that both holds its antecedent close and lovingly lets it go. _______ The exhibition opens in conjunction with Mary Anna Pomonis's solo show She Who Holds the Sun at Charlie James Gallery. Together, the two exhibitions form an interrelated dialogue about loss, renewal, and lineage, rooted in Pomonis’s personal experience of the 2025 Eaton Fire, which destroyed an entire body of her paintings. She Who Made Me serves as the conceptual and emotional foundation for this process of recovery. The exhibition brings together artists who have profoundly shaped Pomonis’s artistic practice, including teachers, peers, and collaborators whose work embodies the matrilineal networks of influence and mentorship that sustain creative life..