Simon Gallery is pleased to present Laura McClanahan  third solo exhibition.

Laura McClanahan’s new paintings explore the metaphorical impressions of water and the element’s power to influence and pattern the course of our lives. Moments of time like a single drop or, the unpredictable immensity of the surging tide, shape and transform the world that is within, and the world that surrounds us. Evolving Patterns charts this process as it occurs. This work is McClanahan’s record keeping where the viewer realizes the transcendence that happens when the internal and the external experience relate, and unanticipated connections emerge out of the duality. 

Given her fundamental interest in deconstruction and transformation, Laura McClanahan addresses each painting in a straightforward and unpretentious manner.  She creates resistances of crackling roughness and dropped circles of acrylic paint on the surfaces, to challenge the flow of ink and water. McClanahan is heavy-handed with the water because she intends the paint be carried like sediment in a river. Employing earth tones; copper, silver, Mayan gold and turquoise, she creates mineral trails that flow away and manifest as petrographic and fractal patterns. Organic forms and molecular shapes float across the canvas reminding us of the rhythms and changes that influence the mysteries of the meandering stream of life.

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