Opening Reception and Live Performance: Sara Marlowe Hall and Zuk Zuk

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to present Pink Morongo, a spotlight presentation of new works by Los Angeles-based artist Sara Marlowe Hall, on view from November 22nd, 2025, through January 10th, 2026.

The artist’s recent body of work was created in residence at Merchant House High Desert in Morongo, California, and draws inspiration from the nuanced landscape of the Mojave Desert. Hall’s paintings transmute the brilliant colors, natural forms and atmospheric qualities of the desert into textured, expressive compositions.

At the center of the grouping, a large work titled Spring is Here alludes to a desert horizon with softly modeled geometric forms in shades of cream and charcoal, punctuated by earthy greens, browns, and pinks. The smaller paintings, created while the artist was healing from an injury, convey a slower rhythm and are encircled by a border of raw linen. Gestural brush strokes and planes of color converge to form impressions of a house, a skyline, and a desert garden.

For the opening reception of Pink Morongo, Sara Marlowe Hall invites her husband, musician and composer Matthew Zuk (known as Zuk Zuk), to perform a live improvised composition in response to her paintings. The performance continues their ongoing collaboration Lovers Talk, a project that investigates the intersections of solar fields, composition, scale, space, color, and texture. Zuk Zuk employs synthesized loops, a fretless baritone guitar, and a twelve-string in new standard tuning to create layered soundscapes and textured melodies that accompany Hall’s paintings, translating visual elements into sound and blurring the boundary between painting and performance.