Exhibition by Misa Chhan
June 6th—27th, 2026
Opening: Saturday June 6th, from 3-6pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays in June, from 2pm – 5pm.
Avocado and soy dye workshop June 20 at 2pm (please RSVP)
Tending a garden functions as both labor and pedagogy; it offers an instruction manual for how to move through daily life with patience, humility, and care. Through this lens, Misa Chhan examines the ontological tension between craft as a mode of production and an anti-consumption ethos, particularly within the domestic sphere, the natural landscape, and the built environment. Her work asks how making—when rooted in care, slowness, and ancestral knowledge—might serve as a reorientation away from extractive systems of value and toward reciprocal relationships with materials, labor, and the natural world.
The textile work on display in This morning I opened two gifts emerged from time spent by the artist at Salmon Creek Farm in Mendocino, CA. She writes, “It felt liberating to finally relinquish fears around value and sentiment once I started to cut and sew these fabrics together. This piece…(is) greater than the sum of its parts. Nothing feels too precious anymore, which feels like a miracle.”
Misa Chhan is an artist and natural dyer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
They work across natural dyes, textiles, fibers, baskets, printmaking, kites, and artists books. Their background in book arts, printmaking, papermaking, lead them to explore natural dyes as a medium to stay engaged with and learn from the natural world. The mindset of domination over nature creates a scenario where we feel detached from nature, as opposed to understanding that we are fundamentally dependent on it and part of nature. Their goal is to collaborate with plants, their surroundings, what is readily available around them, and to work as close as possible to what the world is made of. They spend their time gardening, practicing how to coax color from plants, composting, flying kites, foraging, and researching natural dyes and minerals and how to integrate them in their daily life.
