Carl Hammer Gallery is showing Mike Noland’s “Leaps of Faith,” an exhibition of new paintings, through August 30.

An avid fisherman, Noland remembers well the sound of fish jumping and splashing into the night. And as these paintings serve as a spiritual journey into those night sounds, the images of the fish jumping are indeed “Leaps of Faith.”

In Noland’s fish imagery, wild, uncontrollable, expressive forces of nature are expressed.

Carl Hammer Gallery, 740 North Wells Street can be reached at 312-266-8512.