Recent works by

Katy Crowe + Coleen Sterritt

March 14 – April 24, 2020

 

Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present Evenso, current works by Katy Crowe and Coleen Sterritt. The exhibition will open with an Artists’ Reception Saturday, March 14, from 4 – 7PM.

 

In her excellent 2011 artUS review of Katy Crowe’s exhibition rebidishu two, Esther Ribot writes on the artist: Katy Crowe’s long professional career is marked by a strong emphasis on process, resulting in intricate, studied abstractions. Each drawing or painting responds to prior work, just as each brushstroke is the logical answer to the one before. Crowe lets the painting carry her wherever it needs to go, but she always holds the reins, ensuring that no movement will be lost or hidden. Her light, transparent brushstrokes enable the viewer to make out every step of the process, even though it’s a bit like working your way backwards through a labyrinth. Reminiscent of Theodor Adorno’s notion of the “false immediacy of enjoyment”, the unconscious gesture is granted respite from the processes of secondary revision that otherwise cannot but dominate a seasoned practice of abstraction.