Richard Levy Gallery Presents Three Coinciding Solo Exhibitions that Consider Water, Land, and Portraiture as Grounding Elements

Amie LeGette • Folding Pond
Yuki Murata • Core Samples
Nikesha Breeze • New Editions

June 17–August 8
Artists Reception: Satuday, July 11, 2026

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present three coinciding solo exhibitions featuring new abstract works of natural dye on silk by Amie LeGette, earth pigment paintings on panel by Yuki Murata, and two recently released  limited editions by Nikesha Breeze. The exhibitions showcase each artist’s creative trajectories and highlight a shared connection to the grounding elements of water, land, and ancestry.

Abstract artwork featuring overlapping, transparent oval shapes in grayscale. Within the ovals, ripple patterns resembling water circles or concentric waves create a layered, fluid effect against a white background.
A watercolor painting showing concentric ripples spreading across a dark, reflective water surface, with soft gradients of gray and blue blending into each other. The image has an abstract, serene quality.
A grayscale abstract artwork featuring overlapping circular shapes and soft, cloud-like textures, creating a dreamy, flowing composition with varied shades and blurred edges.
Abstract watercolor painting featuring two overlapping, rounded rectangular shapes in soft gray and blue tones on a white background, with gentle gradients and subtle texture.
Watercolor-style painting of a calm, textured sea in shades of gray and blue, with a pale sun low in the sky, partially obscured by translucent, overlapping shapes in muted pink and gray tones.
Abstract artwork featuring two overlapping, semi-transparent geometric shapes with soft, dark gray and light gray gradient tones, resembling folded paper or mirrored reflections across a white background.
Abstract artwork featuring two large, overlapping, oval shapes in muted pink and gray tones, with textured and slightly transparent layers, resembling a calm landscape or reflection.

AMIE LEGETTE: Folding Pond


Folding Pond marks an intimate and personally significant body of work by Amie LeGette (Portland, OR) and features paintings she made in the year following the birth of her daughter. Working with translucent silk and natural dyes—primarily indigo, with select use of cochineal and other plant-derived pigments—LeGette creates layered, luminous paintings that explore water as both subject and metaphor. The abstracted works originate from her photographs of contained pools of water glimpsed in and around her home, such as rain puddles and reflective rings on pavement. Water carries both physical and emotional weight for LeGette, and the series reflects on her experience of new motherhood—the body’s fluid exchanges, the feeling of simultaneously receiving and giving, of containment with the suggestion of expansion. The use of natural dyes reflects the artist’s broader commitment to environmentally conscious materials and craft-based traditions. LeGette received her BFA from the University of New Mexico, where she also completed a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design.

Exhibtion Catalogue

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YUKI MURATA: Core Samples

Core Samples features a selection of paintings by Yuki Murata (Santa Fe, NM) for which she created pigment from soil, applying it to canvas with overlays of gestural marks and horizontal stripes. The result is work that holds both the rawness of the natural world and the ordering impulse of human civilization, while also paying homage to the vast horizon lines of the New Mexico landscape and referencing her architectural roots. Murata gathers soil pigments during residencies chosen for their ecological ethos and stark, contrasting climates, such as those in Iceland and Nevada. By dragging her canvases across terrain and embedding earth into the surface, she implicates herself and the viewer as participants in a shared, and increasingly fragile, environment.

Murata also debuts a sculpture that reimagines Yuki Onna, the snow woman of Japanese mythology, as a protective figure watching over migrants and immigrants, specifically related to DHS Dept of Homeland Security & ICE Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Murata received her Master of Industrial Design Rhode Island School of Design and her BA in Architecture from Yale University.

Exhibtion Catalogue

A dark bronze sculpted face with closed eyes and lips, shown against a plain white background. The expression appears calm and serene.
A sepia-toned painting of two young girls in white dresses; one sits on a chair, the other stands beside her holding a large brimmed hat. The background shows a textured wall and staircase.

NIKESHA BREEZE: New Editions (Back Gallery)

Grounded in a global African diasporic and Afro-Futurist perspective, Nikesha Breeze (Taos, NM) draws on ancestral memory, archival research, and memorial to revive stories long erased from the historical record. On view are two new editions by Breeze, published in support of the artist’s participation in Living Histories at the 25th Biennale of Sydney. The first edition is a limited archival pigment print of Breeze’s painting Isadora and Mary Noe Freeman, drawn from the artist’s ongoing Archival Portraiture series which transforms early photographic records—daguerreotypes, tintypes, and emulsion photographs dating as far back as 1840—into life-sized paintings honoring Black ancestors whose stories were overlooked or erased. Informed by the legacy of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, the series reclaims portraiture as an act of dignity, testimony, and historical repair. The second edition is a limited bronze mask that derives from Breeze’s landmark installation 108 Death Masks: A Communal Prayer for Peace and Justice. The original work was created over a 108-day vigil, during which the artist carved one mask per day from clay—each slab first rolled smooth to represent innocence before being marked with acts of violence and physical tension to simulate the conditions experienced by enslaved people. In 2024, a bronze version was commissioned by the Equal Justice Initiative and installed permanently at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, honoring the six million lives lost in enslavement in the United States. This limited edition was cast at Stratton Studios in Philadelphia from an artist proof created in Ghana.

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Exhibition Dates: June 17–August 8, 2026
Reception: Saturday, July, 11: 6–8 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11 am–4 pm or by appointment
Location: 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Contact: 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com, www.levygallery.com @levygallery

Artwork and Information
Amie Legette
Yuki Murata
Nikesha Breeze