someplace, somewhere
by Morleigh Steinberg
at ARCANE SPACE gallery
**Artist walk-through + curator conversation Feb 7 at 2pm**
Exhibit extended through March 1
VENICE BEACH, CA — ARCANE Space presents someplace, somewhere new photo collage works on mylar by Morleigh Steinberg now on view and extended through March 1, 2026.
someplace, somewhere extends Steinberg’s inquiry into the mutable borders between place and perception. This work began with a reexamination of traditional Irish landscape painting, utilizing photographic material sourced in western Ireland and our western skies. Through spliced and abstracted compositions, this luminous installation of kaleidoscopic gardens, dizzying vistas and blooming skies shifts the viewers perception to a place coveted, sought after and unmapped.
Her compositions hover among memory and dream as she stitches her photos into altered terrains which complicate ideas of horizon, perspective, and pictorial coherence. The artist recomposes landscape imagery into speculative architectures of light, reflection, and negative space. Silver mylar prints invite viewers to encounter these new terrains as a shifting, reflective skin: mutable, luminous, and alive.
The series departs from, yet speaks to, Steinberg’s long-running LA Skylines project, which isolates the incidental geometries of urban power infrastructures. Here, the artist continues her practice of re-seeing, foregrounding the perceptual interstices between what is recorded, what is remembered, and what is imagined.
“Every image contains its own fractal,” Steinberg notes. “I’m not documenting a place so much as excavating the possibility embedded within it. This exhibit is an invitation to occupy both here and elsewhere—to move through a landscape that is simultaneously observed, invented, and felt.”
Using recomposed photographs and layered abstractions, Steinberg pushes the familiar into the surreal. At the center of this new series is a question of belonging: where do images live when they move between places—between Los Angeles and Ireland, between personal geography and mythic terrain?
About Arcane Space:
Co-founded by Morleigh Steinberg and Frally Hynes in 2017, Arcane Space is a contemporary art gallery in Venice Beach committed to showcasing thought-provoking work by established and emerging artists across all disciplines.
