Abundance

Simone Hale returns to Michael Reid Murrurundi with her second solo exhibition, Abundance – a painterly celebration of home comforts that feels serendipitously timed for spring and arrives after her warmly received late-summer debut.

Painted during the last chapters of life in her rambling New England home, these intimate works sit between interior and still life: flowers and fruit appear heaped together with effortless elegance, utilitarian vessels are arrayed on hearty kitchen tables, and rooms steeped in soft, natural light enclose timeworn pieces that gesture to past lives. Eclectic vintage frames extend each scene, lending old-world charm, like windows onto a bygone season and simpler times. “If abundance is the opposite of scarcity, then it is the perfect word to describe the last 22 years of life in our old house,” says Hale, who notes each understated scene as being “part of the abundance of our everyday.”

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