For those in NYC at the moment, Los Angeles-based painter Hilary Pecis has a wonderful show on at Rachel Uffner Gallery on the Lower East Side. With the work being primarily focused on environments and still life compositions with a Southern California backdrop, Come Along With Me has personal observational traits that are the hallmark of Pecis's increasingly intimate work.
From the gallery: "In Come Along with Me, the Los Angeles based artist invites viewers to step into intimate settings and environments inspired by the Southern California light. Pecis constructs portraits of friends and family through both the interior and exterior spaces they occupy utilizing objects as signifiers for human characteristics rather than the figures themselves. The imagery in Pecis' work comes from her archive of snapshots taken from hikes, travels, visits with friends in their homes or restaurants, and depictions of the artist's surroundings. Rather than direct re-creations, Pecis focuses on specific details that evoke the feeling of a captured moment—taking liberties while emphasizing texture and brushstroke, color and pattern, and manipulating perspective."
