Posted on
2023-05-08
In Thereabout, Posey reflects on her lifelong fascination with the landscape, tracing her journey from early experiments with abstraction in the 70’s, to her current explorations of painting from memory, imagination, and place. As Posey explains, “it’s not just what I see in my head, but what I see happening as I paint that I seek to understand and depict.”
During the pandemic, Posey spent countless hours in her studio, looking through photos of the places she’s been and using them to ignite her memory of being there. She reimagined these places in a way that involved mapping her experience of being in landscape into painting, creating movement between intuition and intention. The paintings in Thereabout are a result of this process, depicting the landscapes that she has visited and reimagined; each painting becoming a place that she has simultaneously viewed and created. As Posey explains, “Painting is both intentional and exploratory, a call and response system. As characters are said to take on life of their own for the writer, so too does the landscape take on its own growth and weather for the painter.”
Opposite – Headland, 2023
Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023
Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles
www.praz-delavallade.com
