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PATRICIA CHIDLAW
POINTS OF INTEREST February 25 - March 25, 2023 Artist Reception: Saturday, February 25, 2023, 4-7pm |
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present Patricia Chidlaw: Points of Interest, the gallery's fourth solo exhibition of the Southern California artist’s oil paintings. The exhibition features Chidlaw’s new urban landscape paintings focusing on the great Los Angeles region and continues through March 25th.
Patricia Chidlaw is endlessly attracted to light: to the changing light of morning and evening, to shadows at play over Los Angeles, to the subtle shades of the color in the sky and clouds. And while natural light is omnipresent in her work, Chidlaw is deeply drawn to the concrete and steel of the constructed world.
The interaction of the natural and human-made is at the core of Chidlaw’s work: power-lines, painted out graffiti, shadows of palm trees, and angles of architecture come together in the compositions in her distinctive portrait of Los Angeles. The paintings speak to the grit and beauty of this sprawling and complicated metropolis.
There is an intimacy to the spaces she is drawn to - the city skyline hovers in the distance but Chidlaw is directing the viewer’s eye to what is nearby. She is drawn to the older parts of cities - the forgotten alleys and underpasses and byways. Chidlaw is depicting the everyday views many of us drive past without looking twice - asking that we take a moment to see what she sees - to see the beauty in the mundane - the wonder in the moment.
Patricia Chidlaw received her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has exhibited extensively on the West Coast and at numerous art fairs throughout the US. In 2014, she was the subject of a solo exhibition, Realm of the Commonplace - Paintings by Patricia Chidlaw, at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV. Her work appears in many private collections and has been featured in THE Magazine, ArtScene, Southwest Art, Artweek, and on KCET. She lives and works in Santa Barbara.
Patricia Chidlaw is endlessly attracted to light: to the changing light of morning and evening, to shadows at play over Los Angeles, to the subtle shades of the color in the sky and clouds. And while natural light is omnipresent in her work, Chidlaw is deeply drawn to the concrete and steel of the constructed world.
The interaction of the natural and human-made is at the core of Chidlaw’s work: power-lines, painted out graffiti, shadows of palm trees, and angles of architecture come together in the compositions in her distinctive portrait of Los Angeles. The paintings speak to the grit and beauty of this sprawling and complicated metropolis.
There is an intimacy to the spaces she is drawn to - the city skyline hovers in the distance but Chidlaw is directing the viewer’s eye to what is nearby. She is drawn to the older parts of cities - the forgotten alleys and underpasses and byways. Chidlaw is depicting the everyday views many of us drive past without looking twice - asking that we take a moment to see what she sees - to see the beauty in the mundane - the wonder in the moment.
Patricia Chidlaw received her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has exhibited extensively on the West Coast and at numerous art fairs throughout the US. In 2014, she was the subject of a solo exhibition, Realm of the Commonplace - Paintings by Patricia Chidlaw, at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV. Her work appears in many private collections and has been featured in THE Magazine, ArtScene, Southwest Art, Artweek, and on KCET. She lives and works in Santa Barbara.
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Billis Williams Gallery presents emerging to mid-career artists with a focus on painting and is dedicated to exhibiting exceptional work in richly varied visual vocabularies ranging from abstraction to photorealism. After establishing a successful contemporary gallery in New York in 1997, George Billis opened George Billis Gallery Los Angeles in 2004. Tressa Williams joined as director in 2009 and became the managing partner in 2021. Billis Williams Gallery builds on the Billis legacy and shows emerging to mid-career artists with a special focus on Southern California painters.
Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
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Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
[email protected]
www.BillisWilliams.com