Earth Ring.
LAS Contemporary is pleased to announce its inaugural online exhibition, Earth Ring.
This exhibition gathers artists who explore the language of circles and cycles—its perfections, its distortions, and its echoes through time. The circle, after all, is not only a shape but a symbol: of wholeness and return, of margins and movement, of maps and mysteries. Through painting, drawing, found objects, and assemblage, these artists investigate the continuous nature of existence and how the cycle still asserts itself in a world that claims to move only forward.
LAS is honored to collaborate with the following artists:
Emma Hines
Naomi Basu
Parker Parrella
Gail Meyers
Srishti Dass
Time is strange in the center. At the edges of the world, things move fast; rhythmic pulsing leaps and turns, a frantic bird never perching, for even a moment. But in the center, as we watch the rest of the world change and progress from our key position (our point of primary perspective), we pivot; slowly about and around. The middle of a whirlpool. Can you feel it tugging on your ankles even now? Earth Ring lays its head on the lap of the circling waves.
For much of human history, existence was understood as a cycle: the rise and fall of the moon, the pull of the tides, the turning of the seasons, and the rhythms of the body. But at some point, a shift occurred. A linear narrative took hold—one of progress, hierarchy, and singular direction. Some suggest this was a gendered transformation, a movement away from a matriarchal, cyclical understanding of time toward a patriarchal, linear one. Whether this is truth or a longing for a lost world, we remain within the circle’s pull.
How do rhythms and cycles influence us today? What hidden circles peer back at us even now? And how do we ride its waves as the spiral sinks us ever deeper?
The Moth, The Mountains, The Rivers
By Mary Oliver
Who can guess the luna’s sadness who lives so
breifly? Who can guess the impatience of stone
longing to be ground down, to be part again of
something livelier? Who can imagine in what
heaviness the rivers remember their original
clarity?
…
Naomi Basu. Tantric Recursion. Acrylic, pastel, and sumi ink on wood. 24 x 20 inches. 2025. $3000 Inquire
Parker Parrella. Spiral, Eye of the World. Acrylic on panel. 18 x 24 inches. 2024. NFS
Srishti Dass. Untitled. Oil on Canvas. 28 x 32 inches. 2022. $4500. Inquire
Strange questions, yet I have spent worthwhile
time with them. And I suggest them to you also,
that your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life
be richer than it is, that you bow to the earth as
you feel how it actually is, that we—so clever, and
ambitious, and selfish, and unrestrained—are only
one design of the moving, the vivacious many.
Gail Meyers. Chaos in Pink. Mixed Media and Found Objects Sculpture. 23 x 23 x 7.5 inches. 2025. $550. Inquire
Emma Hines. Flow. Pastel on Panel. 20 x 20 inches. 2025. $1250. Inquire
Scroll down to learn more about our artists.
Parker Parrella
Parker Parrella, they/them, is a Queer Artist currently based in Philadelphia, PA. Their work explores persistent feelings of nostalgia, memories of places almost familiar but not quite. Using landscapes as the subject of this expression, their paintings invite you to dream of someplace where the veil between the self and other is thin. Spaces where spirits, gates, portals, and glimmers all imprint themselves into the landscape.
Naomi Basu
Naomi Basu (b. New Delhi) is a New York-based artist who works across painting, embroidery, and animation. Her practice is rooted in traditional Thangka techniques, having studied for several years under the Tibetan master painter, Pema Rinzin. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including Kate Oh Gallery, Visionary Projects, Neighbors Gallery, and Flat Rate Contemporary, auctioned at See You Next Thursday and Taos Abstract Artist Collective, and featured in Hyperallergic. Outside of exhibiting, she promotes emerging artists with her curatorial collective, Immaterial Projects.
Naomi's work centers around the Vedic metaphor of Indra’s Net—an infinite web of jewels reflecting one another, illustrating how all things are interconnected. She starts with a Tantric artifact, such as a cosmological diagram, and playfully enmeshes its iconography with parallel motifs from 2000s-era digital graphics and personal experiences. The result tends to be a vibrant composition that intersects multiple timeframes and cultures. In creating these pieces, she explores how visual ideas recur across time and space, unifying vastly different contexts.
Emma Hines
Emma Hines is a painter from New York who works primarily with pastels and acrylic paint. She has recently participated in two exhibitions in Chelsea, New York, and was selected as an Artist in Residence at PADA Studios in Portugal, Summer 2025.
Emma observes delightful, ambiguous portals in the world that play with transparency and light, and then creates her own. She is exploring inbetweeness: Her work rejects simple binaries and embraces the visual relationship between matter and energy, evolving outside our understanding and limited human perception.
Gail Meyers
Gail Meyers is a New York City based artist creating geometric abstract sculpture from found and sourced materials. Gail has exhibited widely in competitive juried group shows and invitational exhibitions in the tri-state New York area and beyond. Gail’s solo exhibition “Full Circle” (2022) was held at The Center for Maple Grove in Queens, New York. Gail’s most recent awards include a Queens Arts Fund “New Works Grant” for 2024; the Bruce Dorfman Grant Award for study at The Art Students League 2024-2025; Juror’s Choice Award for Eclipse, New England Sculpture Association Exhibition Equinox (2024); Second Place Award for Arabesque, Making Our Marks Exhibition, The International Society of Experimental Artists (2024); The Pietro & Alfrieda Montana Memorial Award for Joy, 110th Annual Exhibition of Allied Artists of America (2023); the Margaret Stefan Draughon Merit Scholarship for study at The Art Students League, 2023-2024
Gail has a M.A. in Art History from Columbia University and worked as a museum educator at The Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for over 20 years. Gail has also worked as an educator in the New York City public school system, as a teaching artist for Puppetry in Practice, and as a yoga instructor. Gail is presently studying at The Art Students League in New York City with Bruce Dorfman and Georgia Kung.
Srishti Dass
Srishti Dass is an abstract painter and drawer based in New York, creating art that blends introspection with the world around her. Her work is deeply inspired by her environment—people, places, colors, and nature all inform her creative process. Through intricate patterns and symbolic imagery, she strive to bridge her inner anxieties with the outer world, offering viewers a space to explore their own thoughts.
Dass’ art often delves into the micro and macro systems of nature—complex structures that have evolved over centuries and are mirrored by human creations in architecture, urban planning, and design. She is fascinated by the tension between monumental forms, like domes and columns, and the delicate details that comprise them. This juxtaposition invites meditation on our smallness within grand structures, reflecting a balance between detail and vastness.
Dass looks at the body as a microcosm, containing centuries of learned habits, patterns, and routines. The fragility and impermanence of the human experience are at the core of her practice. This fascination led her to Tantric practices and the spirituality associated with the daily processes of existing. Tantra communicates these emotions through patterns, colors, and shapes. Thus, pattern-making became more than a technique— a meditative practice. She recognized that the repetitive motions helped her tap into subconscious thought, creating a rhythmic harmony in her work. Dass intentionally leave space for viewers to interpret each piece in their own way, encouraging them to find their own meanings and stories within the patterns. While her art stems from personal exploration, it also serves as an invitation for others to connect with it, fostering an interplay between individual and universal experiences.