Painting featuring a sparkling gold ankh centered over a red circular form, surrounded by thick textured bands of brown, yellow, and orange radiating outward.

Black Light Art Show

On dark nights in ancient Egypt, priestesses gathered in circles of firelight, their bodies moving in devotion to the Goddess. This exhibition for Studio 23 Gallery Alameda carries that lineage forward. I offer my own devotional paintings as luminous prayers, glowing in the dark like embers of ritual. Alongside these works, I have collaborated with fellow artist Alana Dill, becoming the embodied canvas and dancing once more in honor of the Goddess. Together, our art is not only seen but lived: paint, movement, and sacred presence brought alive in the black light’s glow.

Bastet's Dream - Devotional painting illuminated under blacklight, showing fluorescent dots forming an “X” shape. The dots are light blue with purple halo outlines, larger at the edges and smaller toward the center, creating illusion of falling inwar

Sol's Soul - Devotional painting illuminated under blacklight, showing a central glittery gold ankh set inside a circular red area. Surrounding the circle is a burst of fiery colors including orange, red, yellow, and purple, radiating outward in a fl

Ali Montgomery dancing before her painting “Sol’s Soul,” illuminated under black light. Her face is painted with lioness features, and her chest is painted with a glowing ankh.

Close up of Ali Montgomery's face before her painting “Bastet's Dream,” illuminated under black light.

Ali Montgomery dancing before her painting “Sol’s Soul,” illuminated under black light. Her spine is painted with a glowing cobra. She holds a hand mirror that reflects her face painted with lioness features.

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