• Dark Interiors & Bright Landscapes

    Date posted: May 30, 2012 Author: jolanta

    Lauren Luloff’s solo exhibition of large-scale paintings will occupy the ground floor of the Halsey McKay Gallery. Richly layered, complex activity propels the construction of these works as the artist layers bleach-stained bed sheets, muslin, transparent fabric and varying viscosities of oil paint. Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of color, time and place. Visually at ease in the dialogue of Abstract Expressionist predecessors, her works are steeped in an accumulation of personal memories and images. The application of her ordinarily domesticated materials and approaches add boldly feminine strokes to the lineage. Both thick and lithe, Luloff’s paintings reflect her psychological and physical world.

    “Visually at ease in the dialogue of Abstract Expressionist predecessors, her works are steeped in an accumulation of personal memories and images.”


    Courtesy of the artist.

     

     

    Dark Interiors & Bright Landscapes

    Lauren Luloff’s solo exhibition of large-scale paintings will occupy the ground floor of the Halsey McKay Gallery. Richly layered, complex activity propels the construction of these works as the artist layers bleach-stained bed sheets, muslin, transparent fabric and varying viscosities of oil paint. Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of color, time and place. Visually at ease in the dialogue of Abstract Expressionist predecessors, her works are steeped in an accumulation of personal memories and images. The application of her ordinarily domesticated materials and approaches add boldly feminine strokes to the lineage. Both thick and lithe, Luloff’s paintings reflect her psychological and physical world. She states “they are dreams, interior spaces of the mind paired with objects from my life.”  Much as we recall dream imagery in flickering hazes of recollection, Luloff’s motifs, patterns and images dance in and out of solid and ethereal shape, lightness and darkness.

    Luloff relates that “these paintings are from the last year; pieced together from experiences in India, my love of textiles and my plant filled studio-home.

    Courtesy of the artist.
    I began bleaching patterns and drawings of plants into bed sheets after learning about traditional block printing in India. Drawing with bleach, instead of paint, steps away from the directness of my hand.  Inside the fabric, my bleach drawings become another part of the fabric, bleeding and seeping into the weave.

    The paintings in this show were surprises, some made without thinking, or thinking they would be something else, but then arriving at a moment quickly that I wanted to preserve, observe, investigate.” 

    “Lauren Luloff – Dark Interiors & Bright Landscapes” opens June 1 and continues through June 19, 2012.  Opening reception: Saturday, June 2, 6-8 pm.  Halsey McKay Gallery 79 Newtown Lane | East Hampton | New York | 11937

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