Art Gallery
Featured Artist - September 2026
Current Featured Artists Exhibition: Jack Edelstein – NonDualistical: The Truth of Polar Opposites
Jack Edelstein’s early artistic efforts began with wood: sculptural forms and organically shaped furniture that echoed the contours of the natural world. In 2019, he set aside his chisels and power tools and turned toward graphic art, opening a new chapter in his creative practice.
Jack’s graphic designs are devoted entirely to the ancient symbol of yin and yang — also know as the Taijitu or the Cosmic Dyad — the emblem of complementary polarity. He explores the profound truth that opposites are not enemies but partners in a higher harmony. Light and shadow, love and hate, good and evil: each member of the pair exists only through the other, each completes what the other begins.
The Taijitu becomes a lens through which to contemplate duality not as conflict, but as interdependence—a philosophical rendering that stresses complementarity rather than opposition. My art is an inquiry into the deeper unity that holds tension without erasing difference, a visual meditation on the way truth emerges from the meeting of contraries.
Through repeated engagement with this singular form, Jack highlights the quiet intelligence of balance, and the unity that emerges when dualities meet without erasing one another.
Technically, the graphic renderings rely on precise symmetry, controlled curvature, and deliberate spatial tension. The background of each Taijitu becomes a stage on which the words themselves balance, mirror, or invert one another. Typography is treated as a sculptural element—weighted, rotated, or nested to echo the swirling motion of the Dyad. The result is a fusion of language and form: a graphic practice that uses words as shapes and shapes as philosophy.
All proceeds go to Groundcover News.
Website:Â www.JackEdelstein.com
Upcoming Artist - October 2026
Upcoming Artist Exhibition: Jasmin Iskandar de Caro – Citrinitas
Small works of whimsy by local artist Jasmin Iskandar de Caro. These paintings highlight the shift from her reflective, lunar practice of abstract expressionism into a more active, solar way of painting. This body of work speaks to the value of beauty for beauty’s sake, and seeks to transcend the heavy labor of the artist’s usual fine art practice.
Jasmin Iskandar de Caro was born outside Los Angeles, California to immigrant parents whose roots span Mexico, Italy, and China by way of Indonesia. Raised in an assimilation-driven household with little connection to a defined cultural lineage, she developed an early sense of dislocation that led her to question ideas of identity and belonging. Over time, her inquiry shifted toward understanding belonging not as a cultural inheritance, but as a deeper state of being.
Artist Statement
I create abstract paintings that are visually complex and suggestive of a narrative arc, inviting the eye to move throughout the composition as though embarking on a journey. I am deeply influenced by James Joyce’s concept of aesthetic arrest—the idea that a work of art can suspend the psyche in a moment of pure perception. By offering a stimulating visual field, my work seeks to extend the moment in which perception arises before interpretation begins.
Website: www.BosqueOscuro.com