Residual Terrain: Lachlan Hinwood + Amy MacKay

MILL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA – CHANDLER GALLERY is pleased to present Residual Terrain, a two-person exhibition of paintings by artists Lachlan Hinwood and Amy MacKay, on view from October 11th through November 15th, 2025. An opening reception will be held at Chandler Gallery in downtown Mill Valley on Saturday, October 11th from 5 to 7pm. Both Hinwood and MacKay will be in attendance. All are welcome to attend.

Residual Terrain presents a series of recent paintings by the artists that approach landscape as a shifting field of experience, memory, perception. Both artists abstract from the world around them, but their entry points to landscape diverge.

Hinwood begins with direct observation, sketches from walks, glimpses of light and weather, and translates these encounters into small, contemplative paintings. His works hover between figuration and abstraction, distilling the quiet transcendence of nature into intimate visual meditations, fused with whimsy and imagination. His use of color and light as expressive content imbues these scenes with emotional resonance; atmospheric fields and gentle tonal shifts suggest dawns, dusks, or internal states rather than fixed locations. Within these mist-like expanses, selective motifs and symbolic anchors, a heart, a tree, a moon, punctuate the surface, offering the viewer points of recognition. Through this interplay, Hinwood plays with a balance between abstraction and recognition in each work, allowing nature to hover between the seen and the sensed, the external world and inner reflection.

MacKay builds her landscapes through layers of collaboration, documentation, and recollection. Drawing from staged performances, interviews, and written accounts, she reconstructs environments as networks of shared memory and affect in sweeping, gestural abstraction. This body of work, inspired by the landscape of her staged performance of By the Bog of Cats, privilege emotional and sensory residue over narrative detail through accumulation and erasure. In her practice, paint is applied, scraped back, veiled, and reintroduced. This layering echoes the logic of her process: translation, recall, and reinterpretation. Each mark MacKay makes carries temporal residue, suggesting not a single event but the afterimage of many. The surface becomes a palimpsest of time, gesture, and embodied experience of landscape.

Through their practices, one solitary and contemplative, the other collaborative and research-driven, Hinwood and MacKay trace the terrain that remains after experience through abstraction. The artists navigate the space between external landscape and internal response, positioning their work within a lineage of painters who translate perception and emotion into abstracted form.

Lachlan Hinwood is a painter and educator currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. Hinwood was born 1995 in Altona, Manitoba, Canada, and earned a B.A. in Geography and Studio Art from Macalester College. He went on to complete an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa. His work has been shown in notable solo, including Life Happens Everywhere, Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York, NY, 2024. He has participated in numerous group and two-person exhibitions, including those at My Pet Ram, New York, NY, 2023; Arusha Gallery, London, UK, 2023; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley, CA; Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2023; and James May Gallery, Algoma, WI, 2022.

Amy MacKay is an artist and educator who was born in Sonoma County in 1985. MacKay received her BA in Painting from Bard College in 2007. After graduating, MacKay taught in an education non-profit in San Francisco for five years. After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, she returned to school to receive her MFA at UC Irvine (2015). MacKay’s solo exhibitions include those at la BEAST, Los Angeles, CA; Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Art Center, UC Irvine, CA; Group Therapy, Los Angeles, CA; SHED Project Space, Oakland, CA; and Bluxome Point, San Francisco, CA, among others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including those at Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI; la BEAST, Los Angeles, CA; Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley, CA; Lobster Club, Los Angeles, CA; OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA; OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA; and Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. She has also participated in New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair (Miami, FL) and the Felix Art Fair (Los Angeles, CA) with la BEAST. She has received numerous awards, notably the Jon Imber Painting Fellowship and Leo Freedman Fellowship. MacKay is also one of the founders of the after-hours gallery in Downtown Los Angeles and the arts initiative Group Practice. MacKay lives and works in Los Angeles, where she teaches at Santa Monica College.