Tierra del Sol Gallery Presents Two Solo Exhibitions! Chloe Isiah (Annex Gallery) & Dru McKenzie (DRU)

Chloe Isiah
Annex Gallery
Opening reception
Saturday, March 21, 6- 8 pm
March 21 – April 25, 2026

Chloe Isiah, Crystal Glacier from Spyro 2 Ripto’s Rage, 2020, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 in

 

Tierra del Sol is pleased to present a collection of paintings by Chloe Isiah. Featuring forty-seven acrylic works on paper installed in Tierra’s Annex Gallery, this exhibition brings together fabulous, psychedelic landscapes that function both as magical vistas and hyperreal journeys. The presentation marks Isiah’s first solo exhibition at Tierra del Sol.

Isiah’s world sparkles with celestial bodies drifting across electrically defined forms. In other compositions, the distinction between night and day dissolves beneath suns that burn with visionary intensity. Modest in scale yet powerful in their use of color, these paintings recall the poetic landscapes of Etel Adnan: small windows that open onto brief yet epic views of symbolic terrain. At the same time, Isiah’s work remains playful, with titles referencing levels from the Spyro the Dragon PlayStation franchise, including Icy Speedway, Cloud Temples, and Sunny Villa. These digitally rendered fantasy environments are transformed through Isiah’s hand into something more organic, experimental, and vividly felt.

Pop, abstraction, video games, dragon realms, and candy-colored sunsets converge in Isiah’s deeply original vision. Synthesizing an eclectic range of influences, she creates cohesive, beautiful, and spectral journeys through color.

Chloe Isiah was born in 1998 in Van Nuys, California. She has been a Tierra del Sol artist since 2019. Her work has been exhibited at Tierra del Sol Gallery in Los Angeles, and Space Is the Place, a group exhibition curated by Alison Saar. Isiah is also a poet who has been published in Summoned by the Sea and It Makes You Think of Soul Things in Your Mind, collections of art and poetry by Tierra del Sol artists.

 

Dru McKenzie
DRU
Opening reception
Saturday, March 21, 6 – 8 pm
March 21 – April 25, 2026

Untitled #945, ND, acrylic and watercolor on paper, 12.5 x 20 in

Tierra del Sol Gallery is proud to present DRU, the second major survey of long-time program artist Dru McKenzie. For more than 25 years, McKenzie has developed a singular body of work in her signature visionary, playful, and inimitable style. This retrospective traces her evolving use of line and color across a range of genres, including still life, portraiture, and tableaux, each pushed toward extremes of stylization. What emerges is a truly distinctive mastery of drawing and mark-making.

Drawing from source material as varied as National Geographic and fashion magazines, the works gathered in this exhibition illuminate McKenzie’s rich personal iconography, often rendered in bold graphic lines and saturated planes of color. Forms float within fields of vibrating marks, thick paint, and washes, while other compositions depict space as an abstract intersection of lines and rectangles. Familiar smiles appear on animals across time, and McKenzie arranges her figures into exuberant yet disciplined leaps through the air.

Line remains the constant through all of McKenzie’s work. Her practice carries echoes of Jean Dubuffet’s totemic compositions as well as the colorful, poster-like works of Henri Matisse. Even when working in acrylic, with graphic qualities that bring to mind Bill Traylor, McKenzie renders her figures as symbols: glyph-like forms that circulate throughout her studio practice with ritualistic intensity. Her signature, almost always written as DRU in capital letters and often repeated three times, functions as a pictograph itself, suggesting a primordial slippage between drawing and writing.

DRU stands as a testament to a lifelong creative engagement with the world, a marvel of the possibilities of drawing, and a triumph of personal vision. This major retrospective is on view at Tierra del Sol Gallery in West Hollywood from March 21 through April 25, 2026.

Dru McKenzie was born in 1957 and joined Tierra del Sol in 1998. She has had solo exhibitions at Tierra del Sol Gallery in Los Angeles and at 24 Hour Gallery in Pasadena, California. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at Good Luck Gallery in Los Angeles; Berenberg Gallery in Boston; Gensler in Santa Monica; Bridge Gallery at Los Angeles City Hall; Da Vinci Gallery at Los Angeles City College; and Art Enables in Washington, D.C. Her work was included in Space Is the Place, a group exhibition curated by Alison Saar. McKenzie was also featured in Doug Harvey’s Artsy article, “10 L.A. Artists Whose Work You Probably Don’t Know—but Should.”

 

Tierra del Sol Gallery:
Tierra del Sol Gallery is part of the Tierra del Sol Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 1971 that supports adults with disabilities through creative pathways to employment, education, and the arts. Based in West Hollywood, the gallery presents year-round exhibitions and public programs that connect artists from Tierra del Sol’s progressive art studios with national and international audiences.

Tierra del Sol Gallery has debuted artists at major art fairs including Felix, Frieze, NADA Miami, and The Armory Show, and works by its artists are held in the collections of MoMA, the American Folk Art Museum, and El Museo del Barrio. All sales directly support the artists and the Foundation’s mission to foster inclusive, sustainable creative careers.

Gallery events attached to this show:
March 21, 6 – 8pm, Public Reception

If you have any questions, contact:
Paige Wery
pwery@tierradelsol.org
323-243-0658