Elijah Wheat Showroom is soul-stirred to announce our inaugural exhibition, featuring E.E. Kono // Dispersion, opening Saturday 13 June, in our new storefront gallery in Beacon, NY. The solo exhibition will run until 19 July 2026. The title Dispersion references both the artist’s chosen medium, in which pigment particles are suspended in egg yolk, as well as themes of generational displacement. The paintings highlight ideas of settlement and belonging.

Kono’s family lineage is tied to westward expansion, and her imagery explores its enduring, often obscured, influence on contemporary national and personal identity.

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E. E. Kono is a painter working between Los Angeles and Iowa who uses the ancient medium of egg tempera to explore American mythologies through a lens of place. Kono’s work incorporates historically relevant materials, such as pigments sourced from culturally significant locations like 19th-century brick factories, to question familiar narratives and uncover the quieter, often overlooked stories embedded in the land itself.