'It's Here': Annika Tucksmith '25 Debuts Solo Exhibition at Steven Zevitas Gallery
It's Here.
"It" is the anxious hush that arrives with dusk; "it" is an unknown presence in a familiar landscape. "It" is also It's Here, a debut solo exhibition by Visual Arts alum Annika Tucksmith '25. "Here" is a dreamlike, dusky landscape—or Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, MA.
On view until January 31, It's Here features eleven new paintings by Tucksmith. Vermillion underpainting emerges from foliage, from bare earth. The paintings occupy a threshold: between innocence and experience, between day and night.
In Suckling (24" x 30", oil on panel, 2025), a cow and her calf are illuminated by late rays in a lush, darkening landscape. Inhabited by animals, humans, or vegetation, Tucksmith's surreal Hudson Valley landscapes are charged by their ethereal light sources: bonfires smoking out, sunsets extinguishing, and dappled moonlight. It's Here evokes a mysterious presence—a silence on the edge of comfort and threat.
Tucksmith achieves a quiet irreality, like a memory that doesn't quite belong to you. As Matt Moment put in an article for Times Union, "Annika Tucksmith’s paintings feel less like remembrances of childhood than the real thing fossilized in paint."
It's Here is on view December 5, 2025–January 31, 2026 at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, MA.
Born in Newton, MA, Annika Tucksmith lives and works in the Hudson Valley. She has participated in group exhibitions at The Salon (New York, NY), The Macedonia Institute (Chatham, NY), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston, MA), The Blanc (New York, NY), Wallach Art Gallery (New York, NY), Prentis Studios (New York, NY), Carrie Haddad Gallery (Hudson, NY), SK Gallery (New York, NY), and Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA) among others. Tucksmith’s work has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and Architectural Digest.
