PAUL PITSKER: EVERY TINY LITTLE THING
January 13 - February 17, 2024
January 13 - February 17, 2024
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My recent watercolor paintings celebrate the exquisite beauty of the natural world on a small scale, while also humorously exploring themes of thwarted yearning and lowered expectations. As the world was slowly returning to normal after the confinement and disruption of the pandemic years, I experienced a traumatic injury to my drawing hand that derailed my painting practice for many months and which is still impacting my productivity. Most of the works in this exhibition were completed during this difficult period during which I had to adjust my work habits and even the way I hold paintbrushes and other tools to accommodate ongoing left hand stiffness and pain. While my watercolors have long depicted delicate subjects and fraught situations to invite contemplation of the fragility of life and the lurking potential for catastrophe, this upheaval in my own reality drove home the lesson that one's own familiar routines can be forever changed in a heartbeat. My recent watercolors explore these themes and express my belief that color and light can overcome darkness, and that the world can be both gorgeous and unsettling, and that humor can be a welcome distraction from all manner of ills.
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