Gladstone is pleased to present When It Was Dark I Called and You Came, an exhibition of new work by Japanese-Mongolian artist Arisa Yoshioka. Drawing formally upon still life, portraiture, and landscape painting while occasionally incorporating elements of assemblage, Yoshioka’s narrative tableaux interrogate the narrow distance that differentiates the material world from the limitlessness of our dreams. Imbuing the familiar with what Yoshioka calls “esoteric beauty of everyday magic”, she proposes a universe in which personal history cohabitates with wishes come to fruition, the edges of the past sharpened and refined by kindness, and the inherent joy of memory.