Exhibition

Leah Guadagnoli: Love Lies Bleeding

14 Oct 2021 – 13 Nov 2021

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Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00

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Hollis Taggart

New York
New York, United States

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Hollis Taggart will open Love Lies Bleeding, New York-based artist Leah Guadagnoli’s first solo presentation with the gallery.

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Guadagnoli is widely recognized for her distinctive three-dimensional wall-based constructions that seamlessly blend the vocabulary of painterly abstraction with the physicality of sculpture. Love Lies Bleeding captures Guadagnoli’s evolution from the hard-edged lines of architecture and kitschy patterns of ‘80s interiors that have long inspired her to more organic forms articulated in bold, bright fields of color. The transition marks an important expansion of the artist’s visual lexicon and a new freedom and openness in her practice. 

Guadagnoli began her career as an abstract painter, shifting to a physical working of materials as a means of exploring more directly the opportunities in and relationships between color, line, form, and environmental influence. Painterly gesture has, however, remained an essential aspect of Guadagnoli’s process, and in her more recent works—produced over the past year—she has embraced a new fluidity and spontaneity. Working from the converted church in the Hudson Valley where she also lives, she has also more actively engaged with light. Thinking of her sculptural paintings in part as stained glass windows, she has accentuated the curves and transitions of her canvas wrapped forms through painting, creating sensations of shimmering light filtering from behind the surface planes.

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