Katy Crowe: Lunar Shift
September 7 - October 12, 2024
Opening reception: September 7, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Mneme, 2024, oil on linen, 52” x 40”
We are pleased to announce “Katy Crowe: Lunar Shift,” a presentation of new oil on linen paintings by this veteran Los Angeles artist. “Lunar Shift” is presented in conjunction with “Carter Potter: Couch Triptych 1990-2024.” Both exhibitions open on Saturday, September 7 with an artists’ reception from 2-5pm, and continue through October 12 at as-is.la
Katy Crowe identifies as an abstract painter. But her version of abstraction, while stubbornly uncompromising, is not allergic to outside references. Indeed, the title of this show, “Lunar Shift,” suggests planetary objects (far away) just as the title of her previous show at this gallery, “A Wrinkle in the Macula” suggested eyeballs (really big and close up).
Whether her titles offer genuine insight into the origin of the circular forms that often figure in her paintings or operate instead as playful misdirection could be beside the point. For whatever their relation to the outside world, Crowe’s powerfully affective artworks proceed according to an “inside” logic that is entirely indifferent to language, relying instead on modes of communication coded deeply in the process of painting itself.
Here, Crowe’s careful attention to touch, surface, feel, scale, color, shape and texture speaks volumes. These and other seemingly small gestures collaborate to convey an urgent if necessarily elusive message about the challenges and opportunities of painting today and about the artist who commits seriously to the task.
