Annika Tucksmith: It’s Here
Annika Tucksmith, Suckling, 2025, oil on panel, 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
December 5, 2025 - January 31, 2026
Opening Reception: December 5, 5:30 – 8 pm
Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present It’s Here, an exhibition of eleven new paintings by Annika Tucksmith. The show will be on view from December 5, 2025, through January 31, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday, December 5, from 5:30–8pm.
It’s Here centers on the charged stillness that emerges as twilight deepens into dusk. Tucksmith’s new paintings illuminate this fleeting threshold, balancing the warmth of familiar landscapes with the quiet tension of what lies ahead.
The works evoke the sensibility of a coming-of-age memory, an atmosphere where innocence and experience coexist within a dense, fog-laden terrain. Lush, expressive brushstrokes shape verdant countryside scenes, while flashes of lava-toned underpainting break through the surface. Both materially and visually, Tucksmith captures a state of transition, one that feels expansive, uncertain, and alive. In these dreamlike spaces, calves nurse under their mothers’ watch, embers simmer with the threat of ignition, deer graze against the approach of nocturnal predators, unruly bouquets bloom toward obstruction, and mysterious rituals emerge and unfold.
In Tucksmith’s world, the shift into night is unaccompanied, offering a space for self-discovery that arises without oversight. What may first register as solitude gradually reveals itself as a landscape with its own responsive presence—an active participant rather than a passive backdrop. The result is a symbiotic relationship in which creatures shape the land even as the land shapes them.
It’s Here functions as a lullaby to the bright day, welcoming the rise of the moon. As the sun lowers, a crepuscular passage opens—a brief, hushed pocket of peace. And yet, beneath this calm, something unknown is not merely approaching; it has already arrived.
ANNIKA TUCKSMITH (b. 1995 Newton, MA) lives and works in the Hudson Valley. In 2025, she completed her MFA at Columbia University. Group exhibitions have been hosted by The Salon (New York, NY), The Macedonia Institute (Chatham, NY), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston, MA), The Blanc (New York, NY), Wallach Art Gallery (New York, NY), Prentis Studios (New York, NY), Carrie Haddad Gallery (Hudson, NY), SK Gallery (New York, NY), and Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA) among others. Tucksmith’s work has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and Architectural Digest. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.