Awakening Original Painting by Aurora Kalos

Awakening is one of the works Aurora Kalos names as central to her practice, alongside Cassiopeia and Open Sky. She paints women at the edge of dream and waking, and here that threshold is the subject outright — a figure caught mid-transformation, between states.

Painted in oil on canvas, this is her largest work in the current group at 120 centimeters tall, the scale giving the figure room to breathe. Kalos holds to the hyperreal-to-surreal register that runs through her portraits, spirituality and the quiet interior life surfacing in the handling of light across skin and ground.

Oil on canvas · 2026 · 120 × 80 cm (47.2 × 31.5 in) · Unique work · Stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang · Certificate of authenticity included.