Society Invites was invited by Natalie Olivas Sanchez, owner of the Helena Mason Art Gallery, to meet with their newest artist, Luca Barberini (b. 1981, Ravenna, Italy) and view his works before he returned to Italy. His exhibition, titled Inner Landscapes, is on view through October.

It was fab to reconnect with Sanchez; its #beenaminute, as we say. Sanchez introduced me to Barberini and his artist wife Arianna Gallo. The exhibition happened through a mutual friend of the gallery – mosaic artist Tami Macala, owner of Santa Barbara School of Mosaic Art – where Gallo taught a workshop.