Diane Drescher “New Paintings / New Mexico”

Bowery Gallery

[Image: Diane Drescher "Ruins on Cloudy Day" (2018) oil on canvas, 12 x 18 in.]

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Diane Drescher’s third show at Bowery presents recent paintings inspired by the artist’s trips to New Mexico, where her painting sites included the ruins of a seventeenth-century mission and pueblo in Pecos National Historic Park.

Many painters of the desert turn to an idiosyncratic painting language because of the geological extremes and the ever-changing clouds and sky; old adobe buildings literally rise out of the dirt they are standing on. Drescher, whose quietly radiant paintings reflect her pursuit of such essences, likes to quote Lawrence Clark Powell’s advice to writers exploring the Southwest:
Seek essences, enduring things, touchstones and symbols; try to recreate in prose what makes this country so increasingly meaningful and necessary to one. Altitude, distance, color, configuration, history, and culture — in them dwell the essential things, but they must be extracted.

Concurrently at Bowery: Michael Louis Johnson: Two Trains Running, Continued