Exhibition of Works
Works by Kate Lawless
May 7 - May 16, 2015
chashama 266 Gallery
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
Open Hours:
Thursday and Friday from 12-2pm
Saturday from 12-5pm
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 8 from 5-7pm
As a narrative painter interested in a fantastic reality, Kate Lawless turns towards Romantic Mysticism and create a consciously fictive world. The nineteenth century Romantic landscape tradition invested nature with the drama of human psychology and expression, making the common place extraordinary. As an historically late and, therefore, anxious artist, she devises a vocabulary of images as a method of wish fulfillment, deriving her own imaginative matter out of this landscape tradition. She applies paint more as a plastic that she can add and subtract with. She uses images of nature, soil, sky and seasons as elements which are recognizable yet also resemble something else. The surrealists took full advantage of free association while engaging in the production of an exquisite corpse. She, too, uses this method, combining observation and invention, giving life to invented forms and using figurative elements as agents of posture and action.
For more information, contact the artist at katlaw100@earthlink.net.
May 7 - May 16, 2015
chashama 266 Gallery
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
Open Hours:
Thursday and Friday from 12-2pm
Saturday from 12-5pm
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 8 from 5-7pm
As a narrative painter interested in a fantastic reality, Kate Lawless turns towards Romantic Mysticism and create a consciously fictive world. The nineteenth century Romantic landscape tradition invested nature with the drama of human psychology and expression, making the common place extraordinary. As an historically late and, therefore, anxious artist, she devises a vocabulary of images as a method of wish fulfillment, deriving her own imaginative matter out of this landscape tradition. She applies paint more as a plastic that she can add and subtract with. She uses images of nature, soil, sky and seasons as elements which are recognizable yet also resemble something else. The surrealists took full advantage of free association while engaging in the production of an exquisite corpse. She, too, uses this method, combining observation and invention, giving life to invented forms and using figurative elements as agents of posture and action.
For more information, contact the artist at katlaw100@earthlink.net.
