Gommaar Gilliams has emerged as a promising talent with his vibrant, colorful works typified by their  bold and painterly brushwork and playful use of materiality and texture. Oscillating between  abstraction and representation, Gilliams is able to create lush, seemingly timeless scenarios that  appear at once familiar and fantastical ⎯ visions of a dreamlike nostalgia-laden utopia ⎯ scenes that  appear like half-remembered or imagined memories filled with a sense of longing. Here, in Damaris,  we see a striking example of Gilliams’ vibrant, multi-textured dreamscapes — one that draws the  viewer in with its figurative appearance, and delightfully subverts our expectations with its abstract  core. Gilliams is represented by De Buck Gallery where he has a show of new works through  February 28th, 2023, and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.