UPCOMING EXHIBITS

Signs + Wonder
Billis Williams Gallery
November 21 - December 19, 2026
LOCATION:
Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90034
OPENING:
Saturday 21 November
3-6pm
Architecturally, billboards are forms devoid of substance. Constructed to transmit fleeting images and create desire, their value and purpose is limited. In this series of encaustic paintings, Hesse ignores the structures’ temporary and transactional mission. He focuses instead on something not temporary at all: a sense of expectation, a longing without an object, and most emphatically, an insistence that mere materialism doesn’t get the last word.
PAST EXHIBITS
Galerie Intra Muros
June 6 - September 1, 2026
LOCATION:
10 Rue de la Temporalité
81000 Albi
France
OPENING:
June 5, 2026

"Thin Spaces: Ancient Celts used this term to describe sites on earth where the veil between this world and another is less solid, making the unseen and mystical seem more proximate and real.
While I don't necessarily believe in places being sacred, I am fasinated by the idea that we can have resonant relationships with even the most rote architectural forms by transposing the ancient idea of thin spaces into a modern setting.
This series of paintings addresses the relentless presence of billboards in the LA landscape. Wrested from their role as didactic messengers of commerce, they become transportive rather than transactional, and suggest that perhaps one way to encounter another world is to engage more deeply with our own."
Billis Williams Gallery
November 16th - December 21st, 2024
Where The Space Is Thin
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Peregrinations
Chapelle St Roch
July 17th - October 7th, 2023
The summer gallery and exhibit, "Peregrinations," is now open. Come see Hesse's latest work inspired by recent travels in a beautiful 18th-century chapel on top of the cliffs of Puycelsi.
LOCATION:
3 Promenade du Grand
Chapelle St Roch
81140 Puycelsi
France
HOURS:
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Open every day except Tuesdays
