In Erica Vincenzi’s intimate paintings of cropped images, the artist focuses on snippets of everyday life that may feel familiar to us, both in action and setting—two hands open a wine bottle, a blue dish rests on a kitchen counter—yet have a dreamy, mysterious quality. Her narratives are ambiguous, heightened by her deft color palettes of saturated deep reds and blues and pastels, and also consider art objects and architectural details within mostly domestic spaces. Several of her paintings feature sculptures of different scales, such as a larger painting of a white, neoclassical stone girl being nipped by a wolf, a full moon hanging in the background, and a cute ceramic frog planter lying on its belly. With almost all of her human subjects reduced to their hands and feet, Vincenzi leaves the viewer with questions and a curiosity about the subjects and spaces of her paintings, letting us fill in the gaps ourselves.

Erica Vincenzi: “DUMBSTRUCK, AWEFOUNDED”
Giovanni’s Room
850 S Broadway, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90015
On view through October 28, 2023