Kimie Joe, Mountain Snow to 84 Springs, 48 x 48 in., mixed media on canvas, 2025. Personal tribute tracing a journey from the snowy peaks of Hiroshima and weaving together memories of motherhood, immigration, and storytelling.

Gallery of Hermosa: Gallery of Hermosa presents contemporary painting, ceramics, and mixed media by a range of emerging and established artists working across disciplines and approaches. The program reflects a balance between technical foundation and exploratory practice, often including strong representational work while remaining open to abstraction and hybrid forms.

Founded by artist and gallerist Kimie Joe, the gallery operates as both an exhibition space and working studio environment, shaped by an artist-led perspective that values process, material understanding, and the development of cohesive bodies of work. Rotating exhibitions and thematic group shows create an evolving program that engages both artists and collectors.

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Kimie Joe, City Coastal Icon, 24 x 24 in., oil on canvas, 2026. Lifeguard tower as a familiar coastal marker reflecting memory and shifting rhythms along the shoreline.

Gallery of Hermosa brings together regional, national, and international artists, offering collectors access to original works that are distinct in voice and varied in style. The gallery’s curatorial approach emphasizes quality, authenticity, and work that holds both visual presence and lasting relevance, providing a setting that is approachable and rooted in contemporary practice.

Jove Wang, An Old Man in the Sun, 18 x 24 in., oil on linen, 2025. Guided by instinct and feeling, capturing an elderly man from Jilin, China in a moment of quiet under natural light.