Together, they propose landscape as something lived and internalized rather than observed from a distance.
Rhett Baruch Gallery and Lawson-Fenning are pleased to present Close To Coast, a collaborative exhibition hosted at Lawson-Fenning’s new concept space, Studio LF. The exhibition brings together two abstract painters long associated with the galleries’ program: Lynda Keeler and Colt Seager. Both artists approach landscape not as a fixed image, but as an experience shaped by movement, perception, color, and proximity.
Though working from different geographies, Keeler and Seager explore what it means to exist near a threshold—between natural and built environments, observation and intuition, the physical and the spiritual. Together, they propose landscape as something lived and internalized rather than observed from a distance.
Lynda Keeler’s work draws from daily walks through California neighborhoods and desert terrain. Her oil paintings are created in direct response to found vintage frames she has collected, with each composition shaped by the frame’s material, color, and scale. Streets, cul-de-sacs, desert formations, and architectural fragments are translated into vivid chromatic relationships and fluid geometries, resulting in works that feel mapped rather than composed.
Colt Seager approaches landscape as a site of contemplation and spiritual resonance. Inspired by the Midwest’s rivers, grasses, forests, and open skies, his paintings are built through an intuitive dialogue with color and movement. Drawing on the Celtic notion of “thin places,” Seager treats painting as a threshold, translating nature’s emotional and spiritual charge through lived experience and meditation.
Close To Coast is not about arriving at a destination, but about occupying the space just before it, the in-between where color, form, surprise, and feeling converge.