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Artwork Description

Larissa Lockshin paints on satin and when stretched and marked, generates a harmony of positive and negative space. The raw patches of dye-saturated material mirrors hued counterparts. The areas of shiny fabric left uncovered appear as breaks of light upon the surfaces like sun peeking through the clouds after a storm, or the glittering surface of the ocean at dusk. A considered yet improvisational culmination of gestures are drawn and smudged onto the surface with oils and pastels. Formed from a movement of tinted streaks and loops; atmosphere arises and gives way to luminosity. Light bounces back and forth between the richly pigmented blots, and the sheen of fabric. While conceived as abstract gestures, the work invites associations of landscapes via hints of vegetation, florals, branches, clouds, and sky. Lockshin’s paintings are powerful in their immediacy, capturing glimpses of what seem like passing weather systems, ethereal landscapes and dream-like fantasies.