ERIN LAWLOR

Erin Lawlor

3 February - 12 March 2022
Miles McEnery Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of recent work by Erin Lawlor. The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery will open on 3 February at 525 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 12 March 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Grant Vetter.
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New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
Erin Lawlor
allegory I, 2020
Oil on canvas
59 x 39 3/8 inches
150 x 100 cm

"Lawlor’s superb sense of écriture, or paint handling as a type of pictorial writing, marks her as one of the most important neo-Baroque artists of our generation. This is not just because of how the motif of the fold plays itself out in gesture upon gesture, or through the choreographed interchange of point and counterpoint in each painting, or even because of the dynamic role that chiaroscuro plays in the revealing and concealing of forms. I would go so far as to venture the idea that her works have surpassed those towering figures of abstraction like Cy Twombly, Howard Hodgkin, and Sue Williams."

- Grant Vetter in "Saving the Spaces of Painting: 24 Notes on the Work of Erin Lawlor"
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- Erin Lawlor
  lay it down, 2020
  Oil on canvas
  59 x 39 3/8 inches
  150 x 100 cm
- Erin Lawlor
  light ahead, 2020
  Oil on canvas
  70 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches
  180 x 120 cm
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Erin Lawlor
midsummer, 2020
Oil on canvas
59 x 39 3/8 inches
150 x 100 cm

"The works in the exhibition were painted during various intermittent periods over the last two years, interludes between lockdowns and forced halts. As snapshots of these windows of time in the studio, the paintings came to represent moments that encapsulate the peculiar life-drive that goes hand in hand with the hardest of times, along with the tenuous belief that there is a joy out the other side of the darkness."

- Erin Lawlor
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"The smaller works I wanted to be bursts of both color and character - there are musical titles running throughout the show, but these works in particular feel like self-contained vignettes, or songs on an album."

- Erin Lawlor
- Erin Lawlor
  stormfront, 2021
  Oil on canvas
  13 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches
  35 x 45 cm
- Erin Lawlor
  strawberry chops, 2021
  Oil on canvas
  17 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches
  45 x 35 cm
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Erin Lawlor Studio, 2021, London, United Kingdom
Erin Lawlor
gimblette, 2021
Oil on canvas
70 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches
180 x 120 cm

"Her choice of palette is often dominated by somber colors juxtaposed against bright bold passages, where the pictorial punctum of each piece is evidenced through the sheer impact of visual panache. The evocative and emotive tenor of Lawlor’s works also shows itself through the dance of ribbon-like swaths of paint that are laid down with such virtuosity that they become singing characters set forth against a compositional chorus of melodic gestures and undulating forms."

- Grant Vetter in "Saving the Spaces of Painting: 24 Notes on the Work of Erin Lawlor"
ERIN LAWLOR
la vie en rose, 2021
Oil on canvas
74 7/8 x 153 1/2 inches
190 x 390 cm
- Erin Lawlor
  minnie, 2021
  Oil on canvas
  35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
  90 x 70 cm
- Erin Lawlor
  roller, 2021
  Oil on canvas
  59 x 39 3/8 inches
  150 x 100 cm
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Erin Lawlor
summer storm, 2021
Oil on canvas
74 7/8 x 102 3/8 inches
190 x 260 cm
Erin Lawlor Studio, 2021, London, United Kingdom
Erin Lawlor in her Studio, 2021, London, United Kingdom

ERIN LAWLOR (b. 1969, Epping, United Kingdom) received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Paris IV – La Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); “Entre chien et loup,” Luca Tommasi Contemporary Art,Milan,Italy; “Memory of a free festival,” Fox/Jensen/McCroy,Auckland, New Zealand; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Cat on the raz and other tales from fish island,” Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain; “Hiraeth,” Fox/Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; “Here to the Hidden Hills,” Fifi Projects, San Pedro, Mexico; and “onomatopoeia,” Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia.

Recent group exhibitions include “Raven,” Fox Jensen, Sydney, Australia; “Summer Exhibition: Reclaiming Magic,” The Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom; “10,” PM/AM, London, United Kingdom; “Holding Hands” (curated by William Gustafsson) Union Gallery, London, United Kingdom; “Hallucinogenic” (curated by Koen Delaere), Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; “Wet, wet, wet: Erin Lawlor, Aida Tomescu, Liat Yossifor,” Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; “British Painting,” Space K, Seoul, South Korea; “Press Print!” Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; and “Les couleurs naissent et meurent,” Galerie Pauline Pavec, Paris, France.

Her work is included in the collections of the New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, United Kingdom; the Mark Art Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia and Space K, Seoul, South Korea.

Lawlor lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

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