Art Review: Annie Lapin: Contours of the Vast, at Shulamit Nazarian for Art & Cake (on view in Los Angeles through December 17) The hindquarters of a half-blue blue horse disappear into or perhaps emerge from within a gestural cloud of pigment billowing across a pastoral landscape; it is not drinking from the water to which it has been led. A latter-day, interfered with Fragonard, a compressed Corot, an accumulative Postmodern array of informational diversity and discretion. For all its compositional obfuscations, pictorial false flags, striated culs-de-sac, and trompe l’oeil winks, Tight Tied Tide (acrylic, oil, oil stick on linen, 2022) and indeed all the work in Annie Lapin’s enthusiastically busy current solo exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian are exceptionally clear in intention. That is: to replicate the cognitive position of a mind seeking pattern and order in the chaos of post-internet image overload. Read more here: https://artandcakela.com/2022/12/13/annie-lapin-contours-of-the-vast-at-shulamit-nazarian/ #art #painting #annielapin #arthistory #informationoverload #contoursofthevast #shulamit #artandcake #losangeles #gallery #abstraction #surrealism #cognition @artandcakela @annielapinstudio @shulamitnazarian (at Shulamit Nazarian) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHxN8-vLWD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
