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Achromatic vision

Jul 2 – Jul 23, 2026

ABFA is pleased to present Achromatic Vision, an exhibition that strips away color to reveal the simplicity of light, sadow, texture, and line within a painting or drawing.

Working exclusively in black, white, and the vast tonal territory between them, the artists featured in Achromatic Vision demonstrate that the absence of color does not negate their attention to detail and subject matter. Each work asks the viewer to slow down, to read contrast instead of hue, gesture instead of palette, and silence instead of spectacle.

The exhibition brings together painting, drawing and photography on various surfaces that comprise subject matter in realsim to abstract depictions. Despite their differing methods, the works share a common conviction that grayscale is not a retreat from complexity, but a sharpening of it.

Achromatic Vision invites viewers into a quieter, more contemplative mode of looking, one where meaning is built through contrast rather than color, and where restraint becomes its own form of intensity.

Featuring works from Cheryl Kelley, Martin C. Herbst, Leeah Joo, Roger Watt, Scott Prior, Eric Green, Bruce Evans, Javier Bellomo Coria, Natalija Mijatovic, Jeffrey Equality Brooks and Alisha Sickler Brunelli.