Join us from 5:00 - 8:00pm on Saturday, November 8th for an opening reception of Hawthorn, a solo exhibition by Haley Wood.
Exhibition Dates: November 8 - December 20, 2025.
Haley Wood will be present at the reception.
Location: 1923 S Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Complimentary valet offered. Additional nearby street parking available.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is pleased to present Hawthorn, a solo exhibition by Haley Wood that weaves together myth, memory, and the quiet labor of grief. The twelve-part series traces the journey of a symbolic bear moving between dream and waking life, an allegory for healing, self-recognition, and return. Through this narrative, Wood examines how loss reshapes perception and how imagination becomes a space for survival.
Inspired by illuminated manuscripts such as Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, each work unfolds across two distinct yet intertwined planes: the upper register capturing the measured rhythm of daily life, and the lower revealing the bear’s passage through a surreal, fairy-like realm. This duality mirrors the tension between presence and absence, reality and reverie, a quiet dialogue between the outer world and the inner one retreats to when grief becomes too large to hold.