A few years ago, Hilary Pecis told us, "I really enjoy making the landscape paintings the most. I move between landscape and still life pretty fluidly and tend to work on them simultaneously. There are many things I enjoy about both, such as their relationship within the history of painting." This particular theme rings true in her newest solo show at David Kordansky, Paths Crossed, which seems like the perfect amalgamation of all the themes and ideas Pecis has been exploring over recent years, a proverbial road trip through her life and memories and the things that she sees. Where a few of her past solo shows have honed in on the interiors in which we surround ourselves, Paths Crossed is an expansive look to the outside world and the way we surround ourselves in both an urban and natural landscapes. And, at the heart of the work, is the West. 

There are scenes of San Francisco, Los Angeles, the southwest in this show, places that Pecis has both lived in and observed, and also seems to be embedded in as a painter. She is, more now than ever, an LA-painter, and California artist, and she seems strong in that aesthetic and continues to push what those labels could mean. That LA butts up to nature in such specific ways, that San Francisco is literally built on hills and the sea, Pecis seems to understand, and even makes clear as she places those works up against the Grand Canyon and works of blossoms in trees. These are specific views of the West, charged with a sense of detail and purpose, an almost five-senses of the imagination being put into each work. —Evan Pricco