"My paintings are pretty central to my experience of looking and interpreting," Hilary Pecis told us in our Summer 2021 Quarterly. That seems so simply put. Pecis, over the course of the nearly the last decade of making these series of interior and landscape paintings, is mastering the art of a detail. Patterns and colors blend. Dimensions bend. Interiors are, yes, Warmly painted. She now moves between the inside and the outside world in a seamless way, her style so much hers and the deep saturations her signature.
Pecis just opened Warmly at Rachel Uffner in NYC, paintings based on photos Pecis has taken but transformed into a nostalgic and era-specific vision of California and the West. They are intimate works, the type of paintings that reminds one of humanity even though they lack a figurative element. They are about the places we live and the homes we make for ourselves, the details we care about and how we try and create a setting to exist in. She continues to take the everyday and make it utterly profound. —Evan Pricco
