Ana Elisa Egreja: The Flight of Color

Jessica Silverman is pleased to present the first US solo show of Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja, "The Flight of Color," on view from July 16 to September 5, 2026. In 15 new oil paintings, Egreja transforms the everyday into the subtly miraculous. Working at life size, the artist fills domestic interiors with wild animals, flora, and foods drawn from her life in São Paulo. With intense colors and precise brushwork, her paintings bridge realms conventionally kept apart: the native and the imported, the sacred and the commercial, the sublime and the absurd. Her scenes are not surreal but magic realist; as she explains, they are "improbable, but not impossible."