HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY

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OVERVIEW | CV | PRESS | GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

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Halsey McKay presents a suite of new small silk paintings by Lauren Luloff in the viewing room from October 15 – November 20, 2021.  The isolated marks, shapes and gestures found throughout Clothesline offer a glimpse into what gets blown up and built upon in Luloff’s signature large works. Fully realized gems in their own right, these paintings keep her enthralled with what can be accomplished and better served by their more intimate scale. Able to work quickly with less area to maneuver, she can paint variations on an idea, two, three or four times to see how it can be best resolved. This freedom also allows her to experiment with new color combinations and move from renderings of pattern, observational representation, and abstraction in fresh compositions that are suspended off the wall on hand-made brass hooks.

Texts by artists Hannah Beerman and Jason Stopa accompany the presentation.

This viewing room is now closed for inquires on available works please contact info@halseymckay.com or click INQUIRE.

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FOR LAUREN SUNDAY MORNING by HANNAH BEERMAN

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I woke up sweaty and naked, I don’t leave my apartment very much, so putting on clothes or brushing teeth isn’t habitual. But today I fully prepped before I started talking to your paintings. They are pregnant with Spring, and I am here to show up for them in ways that I’ve forgotten I can show up for myself. These paintings are breathing self-sustaining ecosystems, pulsating with brash and organic color, multiple sources meeting and fucking and creating new life. Structural lines bump into organic and flowery forms in a seamless collage where time and attentiveness serve as invisible sutures. These fearless genetic mixtures describe intersections and corners of reality that I forget still exist. These paintings rewire my brain to find the intimacy of corners and the unexpected in the quiet, and the bold, in human relationships, in this overwhelming world…I can have confidence in beauty!

– October 3, 2021

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JASON STOPA on LAUREN LULOFF

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Lauren Luloff’s  dyed silk fabric paintings use a familiar stain method.  Post-war sensibilities wanted to collapse figure/ground relationships.  Color Field Painting was one such manner.  The obvious antecedents for Luloff have all been named in previous reviews and interviews:  Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland.  Naturally, one might ask:  what can a painter add to a conversation from nearly 60 years ago?   While always interesting, her most recent body of work has taken a surprising turn, one that those same artists would not have taken.  Namely, narrative.  The black  backgrounds that populate this new body of small-sized works lend them a graphic reading.  Striped vertical and horizontal bands create sensual, patchwork patterns interrupted by cascading floral patterns that create rhythm..  Each silk work is treated distinctly from the next, and often combined into a larger whole.  The sequencing creates a syntax, the syntax creates a narrative.  In this recent show, the artist’s personal relationship to material begins to shine.

– October, 2021

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Lauren Luloff, born 1980, in Dover, New Hampshire, received her MFA from The Milton Avery College of Art, Bard College and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University. Recent solo exhibitions have been with Ceysson and Benetiere, New York; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg and Geneva, Switzerland; Marlborough Chelsea, New York; The Hole, New York; and Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy. Notable group exhibitions include Galerie Lelong, New York; CANADA Gallery, New York; Tanya Bonakdar gallery, New York; The Queens Museum,Queens, NY; Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain, and Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy. Her work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, Vogue, T Magazine, Art in America, the Huffington Post and the Village Voice among others. She has been awarded residencies by The Bau Institute, in Cassis, France, The Macedonia Institute, in Chatham, NY and DNA Residency in Provincetown, MA. Luloff lives and works in Maine and is represented by Halsey McKay Gallery.

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