Patricia Chidlaw: Darkness. Dawn
February 27th – April 3, 2021
GBGLA is pleased to present Patricia Chidlaw: Darkness. Dawn, the gallery’s third exhibition of works by the Southern California artist. The exhibition features the Chidlaw’s new cityscape oil paintings and continues through April 3rd.
Painter and art critic Wyndam Lewis wrote “Art is the expression of an enormous preference.” We gravitate to the visual based on what appeals to us deep in our souls. That preference is such a personal and complicated response to countless factors – and not something easy to quantify.
Patricia Chidlaw’s preferences – what she find visually engaging and beautiful – have stayed remarkably consistent over her forty years of painting. The morning light on the stark pavement of the L.A. River still takes her breath away. She is drawn to those older parts of cities – the forgotten alleys and underpasses. And yet these very spaces she finds so compelling are vanishing at an ever increasing speed as cities evolve and modernize.
