What’s in a Voice, Paintings by Talya Baharal (2025 Goetemann Artist Residency Distinguished Artist)

Cove Gallery Hours: Thursday & Friday, 3-7pm; Saturday, 12-7pm; Sunday, 12-4pm; Monday, 11am-2pm

What’s in a Voice is an evocative exhibition by artist Talya Baharal, the 2025 GAR Distinguished Artist, that explores her evolving visual language through abstract compositions inspired by the overlooked and unexpected—cracked asphalt, broken ice, tangled wires. These works, created over recent years, reflect her ongoing search for personal voice and meaning through the layered processes of painting, disrupting, and rebuilding.

Using acrylic, ink, collage, and mixed media, Baharal uncovers structure within chaos, revealing beauty in what remains. Each piece emerges from a dialogue between destruction and creation, surface and depth—inviting moments of clarity, emotion, and discovery.

This exhibition is a meditation on remnants, resilience, and the power of uncovering meaning through mark-making. Baharal paints not for perfection, but for moments of truth. In her words: “I paint to feel alive.”

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