Laurie Fendrich "Recent Paintings"
Gary Snyder Project Space
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Fendrich's work is the subject of a retrospective exhibition, "Sense and Sensation: Laurie Fendrich, Paintings and Drawings 1990-2010," which was organized and presented by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, in Claremont, CA, October – December, 2010. The exhibition—which will travel to the Montana Museum of Art and Culture at The University of Montana in Missoula later this spring—is accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay on the artist by renowned art critic Mark Stevens (whose biography of Willem de Kooning, co-written with his wife, Annalyn Swan, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008). The catalogue also contains an extensive interview with Fendrich by Geoform.net editor Julie Karabenick, together with full-page, full-color reproductions of each work of art in the exhibition.
Fendrich's new paintings at GARY SNYDER Project Space continue and advance the trajectory of her idiosyncratic abstraction, which she develops intuitively but deliberately, through multiple layers of glazed oil colors. The paintings' fusion of angular and rounded shapes is frequently interrupted by occasional small, floating ovals or circles. Although adamantly abstract, the organic curves and shapes whimsically and subtly suggest the presence of people and animals. With surprising juxtapositions of color, combined with complex grays, muted greens and dark browns, the artist achieves unusual harmonies of color and composition.
[Image: Laurie Fendrich 2010 "An Honest Stupid Soul" Oil on canvas 36 x 30 in.]
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from February 10, 2011 to April 02, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-10 from 18:00 to 20:00