There was a moment there a few years back when realism was at a height, artists digging deep and finding the human form and the body needed to be as distinguished and clear as possible. Recently, someone asked me what I thought of painting post-pandemic, and I said "hazy, as if we are desperate to capture a memory." And I used Marin Majić's work as an example. Dawning, on view at Megan Mulrooney's new space in place of Nino Mier's quick exit from LA, is an immersive show, full of beautifully rendered, interstellar-themed, works of dreams and the cosmos and very much in the mood of a hazy memory of a time that may have happened. Dawn evokes a new beginning, something new on the horizon, a new day. And here, I get the sense of remaking what was to what could be, and that Marin made this at the time of the birth of his second child seems so vital to what the viewer sees. Life as a blur, but very real and a chance to begin again. —Evan Pricco