In his second solo exhibition at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, resident artist and Philadelphia native Nathan Pankratz elevates his expertise in color through a new body of work, showcasing water-based paintings layered with semi-opaque, vibrant hues. "So many ways to say I love you, I think I'll try every one" features canvases of gestural, abstract and geometric paintings. Pankratz describes thinking of his new series as he would a love letter, "where color plays the part of promise, optimistic and pure, sometimes staccatoed and muddled by misintention."