Ori Spotlight
Jack Flournoy
The Earth is a Womb (2023)
Oil on Canvas
60 x 48 In
In this piece, a mass of figures rises from darkness, their faces caught between anguish, surrender, and transcendence. The composition feels almost devotional, with the central upward-facing figure illuminated by a burst of light from above, while the surrounding bodies press inward like witnesses, mourners, or fragments of the self.
Rendered with loose, expressive brushwork and a dramatic chiaroscuro palette, the painting carries a raw emotional intensity. The figures appear both physical and ghostlike, emerging from shadow as if from memory, grief, or spiritual rebirth. Flournoy uses darkness not as absence, but as atmosphere, turning the scene into a psychological environment where suffering, faith, identity, and transformation collide.
Featured Artist
Sandra Saradesi
A Canadian contemporary spiritual artist, born in Nicaragua and based in Vienna, Austria. Her practice is rooted in consciousness, healing, emotion, and spiritual transformation, shaped by nearly two decades as an international spiritual teacher, mentor, and healer before beginning her path as a visual artist in 2016. Having lived across North America, Europe, and Asia, Saradesi brings a rich, global perspective to her work, creating luminous paintings that translate inner states, heart energy, and life’s deeper mysteries into visual form.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Alberto Godoy at The Arlo
Ori Gallery is proud to present a three-month exhibition featuring the work of Alberto Godoy, hosted at the vibrant and design-forward setting of Arlo Wynwood.
Known for his deeply expressive and textural compositions, Godoy’s work explores the intersection of material, emotion, and form. Each piece carries a sense of movement and tension inviting viewers into a dialogue between structure and spontaneity, permanence and fragility.
April 16th - July 14th
Art Inspiration
Christopher Makos (b. 1948, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States) contact sheets reveal the beauty of process over perfection. Rather than isolating a single “finished” image, they capture tension, intuition, and becoming—marked by instinctive edits that collapse the distance between artist and subject. A study in how identity is constructed frame by frame.
