Timothy Taylor is happy to announce Wandering, an exhibition of recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Hilary Pecis, opening in London on 12 June. The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery options work that supply kaleidoscopic compositions drawn from the artist’s day by day excursions.
Pecis is thought for her vibrant nonetheless life and panorama work that elevate prosaic scenes with vivid combos of color, texture, linework, and sample. Right here, Pecis turns her focus to environments which can be straightforward to cross by or overlook: stoops and curbs; a crowded pier; a road vendor’s stand. Every portray begins from a photograph the artist took throughout her long-distance runs, commutes to the studio, or travels. In these moments, Pecis is a flâneur or voyeur, observing shock encounters of kind within the outdoors world and translating them to the canvas. In dialogue with the work of the Fauvists and the Nabis-in specific, Matisse’s liberated color and compressed phantasm of depth-her work function refined distortions of color and scale to account for the embodied expertise of viewing her topics. On this means, her work illuminates situations of unlikely magnificence in on a regular basis life.
Silverlake Hillside (all work 2025) depicts a juncture at a stoplight beneath an idyllic blue sky. In saturated color, the composition contains a seemingly random scene of dense landscaping, the enduring Western Exterminator constructing of East Los Angeles, fences, retaining partitions, billboards, and a bluebird sky mirrored in home windows. The situation is a freeway exit ramp that the artist handed on her weekday commute for 5 years. Pecis snapped dozens of pictures of this setting as she waited on the stoplight, struck by the dynamics of the intersecting architectures and horizons. The portray has no central focus, however fairly conveys the dazzling impact of motion within the constructed panorama and the artist’s outstanding eye for sample within the mundane.
A show case in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is the topic of Bakery Show, that includes an array of practically similar groupings of confections. Layers of chocolate sponge and meringue, pillows of whipped cream, plump cherries, and bouquets of berries are neatly organized to create a seductive sample. The portray pays homage to the delicacies of Wayne Thiebaud, himself a California painter who documented the American quotidian. Raised in Northern California, Pecis discovered about artwork from her mom’s calendars, which featured regional artists corresponding to Roy De Forest and Thiebaud. However the place Thiebaud’s desserts are usually positioned in an nameless, cream-colored area, Pecis’s canvas revels in contextual detail-the air flow slits within the show cooler, for instance, kind a rhythmic line throughout the underside of the composition.
Creek Egret is the one portray with a central determine. In it, a milk-white hen is seen by means of branches. Standing in a creek, the heron’s physique is mirrored within the water whereas its face is obscured by leaves. Pecis noticed the hen whereas working on the Gabrielino Path in Angeles Nationwide Forest, an space she frequents and has painted quite a few occasions earlier than. The portray conveys the quiet stillness of the second, regardless of the riotous abundance of nature.
Water likewise options in Lodge Pool, through which the titular pool is outlined by an effervescent sample of ripples and distorted reflections, and in Dock Heron, the place docked motorboats body an unoccupied passage of gently rocking waves that tackle the greyness of their environment. In every canvas, the spontaneous motion of water is distilled right into a simplified however intense sample, suggesting the otherworldliness inherent within the quotidian.
