Luisa Rabbia “From Mitosis to Rainbow”

Peter Blum Gallery

[Image: Luisa Rabbia "Whole" (2019) colored pencil, pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas, 118 x 53 in.]

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Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Luisa Rabbia entitled, From Mitosis to Rainbow at 176 Grand Street, New York.
Luisa Rabbia blends the distinctions made between the human and the natural, expressing solidarity with the cosmos through the organic, bodily landscapes of her expansive paintings. The scale of Rabbia’s paintings suits the themes she explores, oftentimes depicting overlapping abstracted figures joining and breaking apart, seemingly overcoming their physicality. In the exhibition she alludes to interconnected natural processes such as mitosis, forming a thread between microcosms and macrocosms and interweaving them in a nebulous primordial state. Continually in flux and transforming like a rainbow, her forms created in expressive hues also evoke spiritual transitions. Upon closer viewing and bringing this substantial work to a more intimate level, her physical and intuitive process becomes visible with its rhythmically scraped paint, the stratification of pencil marks, and imprints of fingertips. Rabbia alludes to the minute traces that each person leaves over the course of a lifetime, yet simultaneously asserts an expansive and interconnected vision of a wider universe.