LAURA ADLER: RECENT PAINTINGS
AT PAUL THIEBAUD GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco, California: The Paul Thiebaud Gallery is pleased to mark the opening of the 2006 season with a show of the work of Laura Adler. Laura Adler: Recent Paintings runs from January 10th through February 25th. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist¹s work‹ small-format oils on linen‹on the West Coast.

For the imagery in this new body of work, the New York City-based artist turns to the natural world in an effort to discern the abstract qualities lingering just beneath the surface of what is presented before her. Derived from an effort to unite the abstract and representational aspects of a scene, her paintings embody this elusive state of balance.

In the artist¹s own words, ³When I am in nature, what gets me going is to look at a scene and marvel at how surreal it all is - the shapes of the cows, the way a building is wedged against the sky and against another building, a lamppost pressing against a passerby and the passerby pressing back - it all begins to look to me like a giant jigsaw puzzle, in both two-dimensions and three-dimensions in the same moment.²

Mostly small in scale, her oil paintings establish for the viewer an immediate intimacy with the various landscapes of the Northeast. From the soft rolling of New England hills to the detached stillness of Soho rooftops, atmosphere and light are suffused with a voluminous quality.

For the artist, working with smaller scaled canvases proves more conducive to capturing the fleeting weather patterns she¹s observing. Her affinity for sudden shifts in weather lies in its potential to convey this delicate balance between the abstract and representational.

The artist received her MFA from the University of North Carolina in 1995, and currently resides in New York City.

Public Reception Tuesday, January 10, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; open to the public.