Grace Metzler’s solo exhibition Almost Home showcases paintings produced over the last three years. Splitting her time between Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Tilghman Island on Chesapeake Bay, Metzler developed this series while navigating a transient lifestyle, reflected in the works’ embrace of the prosaic and the peculiar.

As each painting evolves, Meltzer reworks the surface by flipping a canvas upside down or removing or adding in characters, creating a stratigraphy of narrative history and giving each work a “past life” that mirrors the turmoil of contemporary ways of living. Her figures, often ultra-saturated and exaggerated, confront identity, longing, and interpersonal connection as the artist threads visual storytelling with painterly experimentation. Metzler’s compositions oscillate between the surreal and the intimate, inviting viewers into spaces that feel both dreamlike and familiar.