Conveying narratives of girlhood, Jane Corrigan’s gestural oil paintings are like snippets from a coming-of-age book—whimsical and playful, they straddle imagination and reality, showing her subjects situated in domestic or nature scenes, her expressive brushstrokes bearing the haziness of a dream or memory. Aside from animals—a horse, cats and a skeletal dog—and a friendly-looking ghost, each of the girls are by themselves in various moments. In Buckets (Evening) (all works 2024), a young girl carries two buckets full of water through a field of tall grass, her long braid swinging in the air; Girl and Cat features a girl in pajamas cradling her bright orange pet, both of her subjects mischievously darting their eyes to the side. As a whole, the paintings cover a wide span of emotions of growing up, some more comical and light while others hint at boredom, fear and investigation.

Jane Corrigan: The Noise Upstairs
Sea View
4166 Sea View Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90065
On view through March 30, 2023.