【SPURS 新展】希拉里·佩西斯：山谷背风处
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Hilary Pecis的作品仿佛就是这样一个难以拒绝的邀请，让你徜徉在极度浓稠的图像中展开绘画史版的侦探游戏。稍有洞察的鉴赏者不难从她的画作中辨识出诸多悬浮其中的艺术史的端倪，甚至陷入堆叠的历史脚注和静物、风景画传统的痕迹和指向中无法自拔，马蒂斯的色彩和图案，霍克尼对于加州光线的捕捉和扁平化的空间处理，Les Nabis画派的构图，甚至里希滕思坦的室内系列中的视角以及对于平面设计元素的关注和挪用，湾区具象画派和加州放克艺术的遗产……这个谱系也可以从画作中的画册，墙上悬挂的画中画找到不少线索。
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—— 栾诗璇，《Hilary Pecis的生活蒙太奇》，2020
（完整文本将于展览开幕后发布）
希拉里·佩西斯：山谷背风处
2020.11.21-12.27
SPURS Gallery | Gallery I
SPURS Gallery welcomes visitors to Delivered by the Foehn Winds, the gallery’s first exhibition with American painter Hilary Pecis, featuring thirteen new paintings the artist has created this year at her Los Angeles studio.
Hilary Pecis' paintings capture the spaces she inhabits in an intricate and captivating way. Referencing the history and medium of painting, Pecis' work feels as though it could exist in a number of time periods, while retaining a modern quality. Upon exploring the various details on Pecis' canvases, one becomes enthralled in all that exists on the surface and could spend hours discovering new and exciting elements. Pecis' interest in the history of representational painting is evident throughout her work. She often includes stacks of monographs, exhibition posters, and works by other artists within her compositions, allowing Pecis the opportunity to try out different styles alongside her vernacular of making. With the inclusion of cultural and art historical references, Pecis offers a set of visual cues to the viewer that speak to specific time and place. Ultimately, through negotiating the negative and positive space on the canvas, Pecis's acrylic paintings allow for contemplation of the space we occupy and how we overlap with our surroundings.
Hilary Pecis (b. 1979, Fullerton, CA) earned a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include The Crisp- Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, FL; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA among others. Pecis has participated in numerous group exhibitions, at venues such as Brand Library & Arts Center, Glendale, CA; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Dominican University of San Rafael, San Rafael, CA; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. The artist's work has been reviewed in ArtForum, Artnet, The New Yorker, and CARLA. Pecis was the 2008 recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission's Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship and is a co-founder of Binder of Women, a collective of female artists based in the Los Angeles area.
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The works of Hilary Precis seem to be just this sort of irresistible invitation to engage in a leisurely detective game of painting history. The keen observer will recognize hints of art history floating around in her paintings, even find themselves mired in piles of historical footnotes, and traces of still life and landscape painting traditions: Matisse's colors and patterns, Hockney’s capturing of the Californian light and flat rendering of space, the compositions of Les Nabis, the perspectives of Lichtenstein's indoor series and his focus and appropriation of graphic design elements, the legacy of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and California Funk Art... There are many clues to this genealogy to be found in the art books and paintings within the paintings.
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— Excerpt from Luan Shixuan, "The Living Montage of Hilary Pecis"
(The full text will be released after the opening of the exhibition)
Hilary Pecis: Delivered by the Foehn Winds
2020.11.21-12.27
SPURS Gallery | Gallery I
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