EXHIBITION IMAGES | PRESS RELEASE | ARTIST PAGE
July 8 – 24| 79 Newtown Lane | East Hampton, NY
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Halsey McKay is pleased to present Desert Paintings, Hilary Pecis’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. In this selection of new works, Pecis draws from snapshots taken on a recent trip through the southern California desert. The hotel pool, a Mexican restaurant, a cactus bloom, lottery tickets, and a variety of sunblock all serve as starting points for her acrylic paintings. These everyday objects and vacation scenes are chosen to serve as opportunities for explorations in paint handling, color, line and pattern recognition. Outtakes from Anza-Borrego, the Salton Sea, Palm Springs and Joshua Tree, with its landscape full of fleeting blooms, are granted saturated life in these visually stunning, modest memorials.
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Hilary Pecis received both her BFA (2006) and her MFA (2009) from San Francisco’s California College of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitIons include Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco; Joshua Liner Gallery, New York; Parklife Gallery, San Francisco. Pecis has appeared in several group exhibitions including at V1, Copenhagen, Denmark; Hunted Projects, Tilburg, Netherlands; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, among others. Her work has been featured on ArtInfo, KQED, SF Gate, as well as in the current summer print issue of Artforum. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles.