February 2021
Xylor Jane at Parrasch Heijnen
The year 2020 included a global palindrome that hadn’t numerically occurred since the year 1111. That date, 02/02/2020, spelled out the same forward and backward, and other lingual and numerical patterns form the basis for mark making in Xylor Jane’s new exhibition at Parrasch Heijnen. Through meticulous measuring, counting, and layering, Jane’s hand-painted geometrics form beguiling patterns created by simply following the artist’s set of rules for each painting. Her paintings are made up of a series of dots that…
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Emma Soucek at Parrasch Heijnen
At Parrasch Heijnen in Boyle Heights, Emma Soucek’s paintings are made with repurposed paper that the artist contorts into colorful compositions. The artist recycles bills and stationery to create paper pulp that she dyes into vibrant hues before adhering it to the canvas in tactile layers. Once applied to the canvas, the paper pulp soaks up neighboring colors, creating smooth gradients that bloom across her compositions. Formally, the works take inspiration from quilting and textiles, which is particularly apparent in…
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Maysha Mohamedi at Parrasch Heijnen
The paintings throughout “Sacred Witness Sacred Menace,” Maysha Mohamedi’s first solo show at Parrasch Heijnen, oscillate between large swaths of color and intricate dabs and spots. Across the abstract works, thin lines guide the eye, sometimes arching gracefully across raw canvas, and other times stalling out in scribbled notations. Amidst pastel pinks, sages, and yellows, canvas-colored paint is used as a correctional mark, dabbing out previously painted marks like White Out. Within each painting, a kind of internal logic builds.…
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