It's freedom we ask for this Passover/Easter, 2026 🤍

March 2026

Passover and Easter are approaching, holidays of freedom,holidays of spring,but these days, are not celebratory at all.Challenging days, days of war, days of death. 

Optimistic Blue Awaits, 2007, 68x80in | 203x173cm

Passover and Easter are approaching, holidays of freedom,holidays of spring,but these days, are not celebratory at all.Challenging days, days of war, days of death. 

It’s hard to look reality straight in the eye; hard not to be blinded by the force of pain that keeps striking without pause. Hard to see where we’ve arrived, how far we’ve already fallen, without asking: how deep is the abyss?

And yet perhaps, as humans, we’ve been tempered by this, perhaps we’ve learned to hold on to hope even on the hardest days, and to believe that thanks to the good people around us, one day all of this will be behind us.

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Until then, I wish that we ascend from the fracture soon; that we send the agents of chaos to their rightful place; that through the black clouds the blue skies will appear again; and that we will be granted quiet, hope, peace, lives that are moral and full of love, guided by the dictates of our hearts. Lives that are not only about physical and emotional survival, but also about depth of meaning and longing, about essence, beauty, and love.

Waiting to expand again into a place where we can see, experience, and examine all of this reflected in the mirror of art.

Wishing safe days to come quickly, when we all go from slavery to freedom.

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Rotem

Chinatown Retreat #2, 2019, 20x16in | 51x41cm

"4th Annual California Dreaming" 

Group exhibition, March 2026

Dorado 806 Projects Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

"Forest Blue,"2021, 31.5x27.5in | 80x70cm

"Future Archives" 

Group exhibition, the 8th Louisiana Biennial, January-February 2026

Bethea Gallery, Louisiana Tech University School of Design

Dialogues on the Knoll

November 2025

A collective exhibition, West Hollywood, CA

Dialogues on the Knoll

Dialogues on the Knoll gathers a circle of artists whose practices seek grounding amid a world in motion. Sculpture, sound, light, painting, and functional art converge to explore the delicate balance between rupture and repair, chaos and contemplation. Clay, bronze, stone, pigment, and frequency each become vessels for transformation—holding emotional, ecological, and spiritual memory in their form. Across the exhibition, we encounter works that surface the rawness of being human, alongside gestures toward healing, ritual, and inner stillness. Some pieces mirror the turbulence of the collective moment; others offer refuge, sanctuary, or breath. Together, they create a living dialogue—an invitation to pause, listen, and inhabit the space between intensity and quiet. On this West Hollywood knoll, the salon becomes both lookout and landing place, where uncertainty and beauty can coexist, and where stillness is not the absence of noise, but the presence of awareness. - by Kipton Cronkite

Opening reception, November 11, 2025

5:00pm-8:00pm

914, 916, 918, 920 West Knoll Drive, West Hollywood, CA

RSVP: assistant@kipton.com - by appointment | Text: 917-797-2689

Curated by Kipton Cronkite | Salon Partner, Todd Williamson

Glimpse, 2021, Dyluted acrylic and pilled vegetation on canvas, 30x40in | 76x102cm

Collective artists: Mark Acetelli, Charles Arnoldi, Kristina Rose Baker, Brian Chaaban, Mads Christensen, Christina Craemer, Shane Guffogg, Steve Hash, Alexandria Hilfiger, Caroline P.M. Jones, David Paul Kay, Brandon Lomax, Leo Marmol, Mohamed Ouedraogo, Theo Pinto, Rotem Reshef, Cybele Rowe, Roxie Sarhangi, Todd Williamson

Signs of Spring, 2017, Dyluted acrylic on canvas, 47x71in | 120x180cm (diptych)

Special thanks to Frost/Chaddock Developers, along with Paul Lester and Daniel Stevenson from The Agency, for the opportunity to collaborate on this project at The Row on West Knoll.

Dialogues on the Knoll

Metallica, 2017, Dyluted acrylic on canvas, 28x22in | 71x56cm

May this year be a good year. Shana Tova! 🧚‍♀️

September 2025

What can we say about the year we've had, or about the next one?

Paradise Lost, 2019, Dyluted acrylic and peeled vegetation on canvas scroll (detail)

First and foremost, I wish for the return of our brothers and sister who are being held in the hell of Gaza, for the people in Gaza to be free, and for the war to end.

I hope that we, as a people, will rediscover our truth, that we will once again be lovers of humanity and seekers of peace, that we will show compassion toward ourselves and those around us, and that with the creativity and love that run through us, we will be able to generate hope for a better future.

May we find the strength to rise from the depths of this rupture and begin to heal.

May this year be a good year. Shana Tova!

in the studio, generateng hope for a better future