TEMPORAL LANDSCAPES

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UPPER MARKET GALLERY is excited to present Temporal Landscapes, a solo exhibition featuring works by Bay Area artist Laura Pacchini. Climate change exacerbates droughts, fires, and heavily impacted recent storms in the artist’s surroundings of the Bay Area, and Italy. Struck by the unnatural lush gardens and new aspects of many environments - landscapes which, just a few months prior, were parched and withered, Laura is also deeply saddened by the devastation a storm may cause to long-standing trees. Outraged by the drastic change and devastating visual effect of the immediate landscape, she draws these scenes, focusing on the intricate detail and grotesque beauty of new growth or break. Laura colors them artificially, highlighting the artificiality and the fragility of their lives, enhancing the surreality of how they exist.

June 9 - 11

opening reception: Friday, June 9, 5:30 - 8:30pm

open hours: June 10 & 11 ~ 12 - 5pm

“Painting must be accountable to our time today. When in the studio it is important to ask myself, what is important to say through painting, and how is it responsible and relevant socially? The process of painting is a balance of formal training, conceptual, cultural, and political considerations at times from life, combined with digital disruption, then regurgitated in paint so the outcome feels meaningful to me as an individual and in context to my relationship with the world.

My ideas, beliefs, convictions, voice, questions, and aesthetics all funnel into my painting practice. The urgency to express a thought lends itself to a series. The series last until another catalyst arises and it may be revisited. I may alter the composition, color, and scale until the issue has been resolved. I am constantly looking, seeking, listening, watching, and moving through the world to find issues that strike me as necessary to paint.”