Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present Cut from a dream, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by New York-based painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders. This show marks Greenfield-Sanders’ sixth solo exhibition and celebrates her twenty-year anniversary with the gallery. Cut from a dream will be on view from May 1 through June 19, 2025. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, May 1 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ idyllic landscape paintings and works on paper depict fleeting moments of found and collected memories. Greenfield–Sanders' serene compositions take viewers through outdoor scenes of aerial beachscapes, lake coastlines, and open fields of wildflowers. While the artist typically works from 35-millimeter vintage slides from the 1950s–1960s, Cut From A Dream draws, for the first time, not only on found images but also on personal photography.

Greenfield–Sanders shifts between representational and surreal chromatic choices in her work. In Red wildflowers, 2025, the bright reds and greens of uncut flowers contrast against a cool blue sky, creating depth and movement; one can almost feel the quality of air as it moves through the patch of grass rustling the wildflowers. In Pink lake, 2024 the deliberate use of Opera Pink as an overriding hue transforms a naturalistic scene into something surreal, tinted rosily like a holiday memory from childhood. The interplay between natural and stylized elements works to create atmospheric landscapes that feel both familiar and dreamlike–often punctuated by far-off figures just out of view.

Exploring themes of collective memory, nostalgia, and the documentation of experience, Greenfield–Sanders probes the nature of recollections as images are translated into various mediums. Beginning by gridding each photograph, she creates several studies in colored pencil and watercolor, which she then collages and paints over in oil. Through this additive process of layering opaque and transparent paints, hidden elements of the composition reveal themselves the longer one spends with the painting; reflecting in form how memories, like concealed layers, emerge, shift, and are reshaped over time.