Lillian Warren’s subject matter are landscapes that mine the netherworld of barely memorable urban images: gas stations, pharmacies, jumbled powerlines, and commercial buildings. To prepare, the artist takes numerous photographs of the same object from different angles and in different light conditions. She then chooses one or several images and transforms non-descript urban vistas into romantically inflected icons. Painted with a loose, impressionistic brush stroke, these works capture light as a hybrid state of natural phenomena and artificial emissions.
Some of the works consist of several panels each depicting the same object from a slightly different perspective. With no fixed vantage point and no pervasive definition of the object/landscape, the viewer experiences the sensation of driving by in a car unable to lay down a permanent memory trace. Yet this fluid state may let these images surface and circulate in the viewer's mind, perhaps ready to be contemplated.
Rudolph Projects | ArtScan Gallery
1836 Richmond Avenue
Houston, TX
TX 77098
Texas
North America
