Hymnal
Band of Vices is pleased to announce HYMNAL, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Residency Art Gallery. Bringing together four artists working across fiber, abstraction, figuration, and ceramics, the exhibition is rooted in a quiet yet powerful sense of reverence, materiality, and presence. HYMNAL emerges from an encounter with serenity: the beauty of a land, the simplicity of daily life, and the unforced grace of a people moving through the world with calm, dignity, and deep connection to place. In translating that experience into an exhibition, HYMNAL becomes an offering, a gathering of distinct voices joined by spirit, form, and feeling.
Tania Banegas creates fiber-based works that channel the rhythms, textures, and quiet strength of the natural world. Guided by intuition and a largely freehand process, the Honduras-born, Los Angeles-based artist produces tactile forms that evoke both personal reflection and universal resonance.
For Ashley Cole, abstraction is both gesture and excavation. Informed by the cultural landscape of Compton and Watts, as well as her background in fashion, Cole’s richly layered paintings incorporate stitching, coded markings, and expressive surfaces that reflect healing, improvisation, and transformation.
Riley Holloway’s figurative paintings are defined by their command of portraiture and their emotional charge. Combining traditional oil painting techniques with bold lines and personal symbolism, he creates works that open onto spaces of history, intimacy, and lived experience.
Connie Martin Trevino’s multidisciplinary practice bridges ceramics, photography, and collage in works shaped by memory, mythology, and the natural world. Bringing a photographer’s eye to clay, she creates sculptural forms that feel at once grounded, expressive, and deeply narrative.