[Palo Alto, CA ] Pamela Walsh Gallery is pleased to present The Linear Edge, a group exhibition featuring Myles Bennett, Michael Dickey, Miquel Gelabert, and Dani Tull, four contemporary artists whose practices probe the possibilities of line as both boundary and breakthrough. The exhibition will open with an Artist Reception on October 18th, from 5 -7 pm.
Through painting, ceramics, and deconstructed hangings, the exhibition traces points of intersection as well as divergence, revealing how shared mediums—and even overlapping subjects—become vehicles for distinct artistic voices. Dani Tull's oil paintings transform line into a meditative language, where sinuous, curving forms negotiate space and rhythm, oscillating between optical vibrations and organic gestures. Miquel Gelabert, by contrast, brings a lyrical dimension to abstraction, where line becomes horizon, memory, and rhythm distilled into luminous color fields. Myles Bennett physically unravels and reconstructs canvas, exposing its woven architecture and allowing line to emerge as thread, incision, and absence. Michael Dickey, working in ceramics, forms vessels of quiet elegance whose curving silhouettes are veiled in rings of color and shifting glazes, where line hovers between surface rhythm and optical illusion.
In The Linear Edge, line is never neutral. It structures space, generates rhythm, and opens conceptual horizons. Across these works, line stretches, layers, fractures, and rebuilds—becoming a site of tension and release, where precision collides with impulse and discipline dissolves into intuition. Together, these four approaches reveal line as an inexhaustible language: sometimes fluid, sometimes austere, it organizes thought, animates matter, and unsettles boundaries between mediums. In this shifting terrain, line emerges simultaneously as structure and symbol, silence and rhythm, risk and revelation.
Myles Bennett (BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a represented artist at Pamela Walsh Gallery, returning for his third exhibition. Bennett takes painting apart—literally—by deconstructing canvas to expose its material architecture. Inking fibers, guiding marks along the grain, and extracting threads with surgical precision, he transforms line into an excavation. The resulting works ripple across painting, drawing, textile, and hanging sculpture, revealing lines that are not only drawn, but physically woven, erased, or uncovered from within the surface itself. He is represented by JDJ Gallery (New York), Dimmitt Contemporary Art (Houston), Rutger Brandt Gallery (Amsterdam), and Pamela Walsh Gallery (Palo Alto).
Michael Dickey (BFA, Colorado State University; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a minimalist-leaning ceramicist and painter for whom line becomes a sculptural protagonist. Through meticulously crafted vessels and forms, he animates surfaces with concentric bands and subtle gradations, creating visual rhythm and optical depth. Dickey’s lines articulate space with quiet authority, sculpting form through contrast, texture, and restraint. His work is held in notable collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, and has been exhibited widely in New York and across the U.S.
Miquel Gelabert (BFA, University of Barcelona; lives and works in Blanes, Spain) is an artist whose work engages the poetic possibilities of geometric abstraction. His paintings distill landscape into elemental forms, converting them into small geometric volumes poised within expansive fields of luminous color. In his work, line becomes a “territory of the sea,” a subtle nod to horizon, vapor, and memory, where rhythm and geometry coexist in meditative balance. Gelabert’s practice restores poetry to geometric abstraction, merging connection to homeland with a lyrical sense of the infinite. Recognized early in Spain through exhibitions at institutions such as Museu de Granollers, Fundació Cuixart, and Fundació Arranz-Bravo, his work can be found in numerous museum collections throughout Europe and has been exhibited in the U.S. and China by Franklin Bowles Galleries (New York) and Suomei Gallery (Shanghai).
Dani Tull (MFA, Stanford University; BFA, San Francisco Art Institute; lives and works in Los Angeles) wields line as both gesture and optical force—sinuous, curving forms that lean, support, and negotiate space. His striated bands of color weave mystical symbolism with intuitive mark-making, transforming line into a meditative yet dynamic agent of balance and flux. Tull’s marks pulse with mystical symbolism while remaining rooted in the body’s intuitive gesture. His work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. with notable solo exhibitions at Blum and Poe, The Pit, Kim Light Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Fredericks & Freiser, and internationally at Torch Gallery in Amsterdam and Wewerka in Berlin. His work is held in collections of prestigious museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty, LACMA, and the Peter Norton Family Collection.
Pamela Walsh Gallery, founded in 2019, is housed in a historic 1929 Birge Clark–designed building in downtown Palo Alto. The gallery represents a diverse roster of contemporary artists as well as the Nathan Oliveira Estate. A member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, Pamela Walsh serves on its Board of Directors and is committed to supporting artists who bring thoughtfulness, technical mastery, and emotional clarity to their work.
The Linear Edge will be on view at Pamela Walsh Gallery, 540 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA from October 18th - November 29th.. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. For more information, visit www.pamelawalshgallery.com or contact info@pamelawalshgallery.com.
