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Lauren Luloff’s solo exhibition of large-scale paintings will occupy the ground floor of the gallery. Richly layered, complex activity propels the construction of these works as the artist layers bleach-stained bed sheets, muslin, transparent fabric and varying viscosities of oil paint. Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of color, time and place. Visually at ease in the dialogue of Abstract Expressionist predecessors, her works are steeped in an accumulation of personal memories and images. The application of her ordinarily domesticated materials and approaches add boldly feminine strokes to the lineage. Both thick and lithe, Luloff’s paintings reflect her psychological and physical world. The immediate surroundings of plant life in her light-filled, Brooklyn studio, and the chaos of repeated travels to India, all unfold onto and into the surface of her paintings. Much as we recall dream imagery in flickering hazes of recollection, Luloff’s motifs, patterns and images dance in and out of solid and ethereal shape, lightness and darkness. It is as if the show’s namesake, Dark Interiors & Bright Landscapes have floated from the dreamer’s bed and sprawled themselves onto the planar surface of stretched canvas, sheets and all.
Lauren Luloff lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and a BFA from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Her work has been included in the notable exhibitions Painting Expanded at Tanya Bonakdar, Not the Way You Remembered at the Queens Museum of Art and The Working Title at the Bronx River Arts Center, New York. The artist was recently profiled by Johnny Misheff in The New York Times T Magazine and has written about in the Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post and Vellum.