Our shoes moaned in tandem
2022Single piece
Size
39 x 30.31 in
Year
2022
Medium
Paintings
Reference
c85464b0
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of Baert Gallery
1983 , Germany
As a German transplant to Los Angeles, Sophie Wahlquist’s work combines the dueling sensibilities of a historically rich European lineage of figuration in painting and California’s sun-drenched prism on the natural world. Wahlquist’s paintings depart from a state of mind rather than from a narrative. Playing with different genres of painting and medium, new gestures and perspectives reverse existing ideas. She likes to negotiate the level to which absence can be replaced by clarity of something intangible or how the depiction of something recognizable can become a trigger for imagination.
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Address
Los Angeles, 1923 S Santa Fe Avenue
Baert gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in downtown Los Angeles. The gallery works with international and emerging contemporary artists....