Jylian Gustlin + Lola: Where the Light Lands

Gallery MAR is pleased to present a summer exhibition featuring new work by Lola and Jylian Gustlin, opening July 3rd with an artist reception from 6–9 pm at the gallery’s Main Street location in Park City. On view for three weeks, the exhibition brings together two distinctive contemporary artists whose practices explore abstraction through color, material, and perception. Lola, a self-taught visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is best known for her intensely vibrant abstractions created with tinted epoxy resin. Working on a raised horizontal surface, she allows the resin to flow, pool, and spill over the edges of the panel, creating luminous compositions framed by gravity-defying drips that have become a signature of her work. Her newest series, Quiet Places, marks an evolution in her practice—moving away from densely layered forms toward simpler shapes, softer palettes, and shadowy overlays that invite viewers to experience moments of calm and serenity. For Lola, color remains the central language of emotion, and each work is intended to create an experience that allows viewers to find their own meaning and sense of optimism within the composition. In conversation with Lola’s emotive abstractions are the richly layered paintings of Jylian Gustlin. Influenced by the San Francisco Bay Area Figurative painters and informed by her background in computer science and digital graphics programming, Gustlin’s work explores the intersection of art, mathematics, and perception. Drawing on concepts such as the Fibonacci sequence and entropy, she creates complex compositions using oil, acrylic, charcoal, wax, gold leaf, pastel, and graphite. Gustlin builds her surfaces through drawing, painting, and scratching into the material itself, resulting in paintings that feel almost sculptural—dynamic fields of gesture, symbol, and color that encourage viewers to look closely and discover new relationships within the work. Together, Lola and Gustlin create a compelling dialogue between intuition and structure, emotion and system. While their approaches differ, both artists share a fascination with how color, material, and form can shape the way we see and experience the world. This calendar listing is brought to you by NowPlayingUtah.com, Utah’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Utah Cultural Alliance.