![]() Like brushwork Möbius strips, they are at turns sharply discrete while also flowing and fading into each other. ![]() The borders of these forms are at once hard-edged and porous. Within these intimate bounds, intricate depths unfold: Ribbon-like fields of flat color abut, overlap, intersect, and meld into fine-haired painterly strokes and swath-like expanses. Vance's oil on linen pictures unwaveringly occupy the personal scale of a window her largest abstract paintings to date, on view here, only stretch 30 inches in one direction, and most measure less than 20. Materially flat, they depict non-objective forms with emotive sensuality and dramatic finesse. Her new paintings and collages, featuring her boldest colors and most graphic gestures, appear unmoored from worldly referent while according with, and flouting conventions of optical construction. One of the gallery's founding artists, Vance has developed a singular abstract language, a portrayal, romantic yet exacting, of plastic space as a surrealist pictorial continuum. David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce a solo presentation at Frieze New York of new work by Los Angeles-based painter Lesley Vance.
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