Sep – Oct 2025
Gallery Saint Germain
Main Level
– Artist Reception –
Thu, Sep 4 • 4-6PM
Exhibition Description:
We hope that each viewer comes away with a sense of how collecting and organizing the chaos of nature allows you to revere the landscape.
Dede Leither & Nicholas Leither We begin outside—walking, watching, gathering.
The furniture begins with a walk—through woods and around lakes—where branches, each shaped by weather and time, are harvested with care. Bent and joined, they become chairs and tables that honor the form and history of the forest they came from. No piece is exactly repeatable. Each carries the memory of a place.
The landscape paintings, created outdoors in shifting light, respond to the same natural world. Working in tonality, these pieces are not portraits of particular places so much as evocations of time—those liminal hours when the sun is low, the air hushed, and color becomes feeling.
Both practices involve stillness. Sitting, looking, building, layering. They call for patience and a kind of attention that deepens with time. They are acts of both solitude and conversation—between artist and subject, between one another, and between the work and its viewer.
This show is a record of those conversations. Of being out in the world, and then returning—bringing back what we’ve found and made, noticed, then created.
About the Artists
– Nick Leither has been building wood sculpture since he was a teenager. After a two-day apprenticeship with Paul Reller in Paynesville, Minnesota, he spent decades refining and exploring his own style and design. From Minnesota to California, he works in wood, writing, photography, and film, exploring the connections between disciplines and mediums.
–Dede Leither – Painting, for me, is the choreography of ideas, perceptions, skills and curiosity. While I work predominantly in oils, I am fickle and often mix my media using decoupage, patterned paper and metallic acrylics. Plein-air is a direct and all- consuming mode of work. It is the springboard of the majority of my paintings. However, it is in my studio where the inspiration, the process and the realization connect. paint, like most callings, is the pursuit that provides the delight.
Artist featured: Nick & Dede Leither
Purchase Location: Gallery Saint Germain
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