Chlo毛 Lamb: Appetite for Color
Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Appetite for Color, Chlo毛 Lamb鈥檚 third solo show with the gallery. In her latest body of work, Lamb takes further her exploration of abstraction and the process of transmuting her scenes of everyday life into joyous, sumptuous compositions. Appetite for Color presents twelve of the artist鈥檚 latest paintings and will be on view on the second floor of Hollis Taggart from September 12 through October 12, 2024, with an opening reception on Thursday, September19, from 5-8PM.
Lamb works in the tradition of twentieth-century colorists and abstract expressionists. Her practice, as highlighted by these new works, is characterized by a lively sensitivity to color and careful attention to the formal possibilities of oil paint. Bathed in rich hues of warm yellows and blues, Lamb鈥檚 paintings often filter people, landscapes, and still life compositions through a gestural abstract vocabulary, taking her observations of the world as a departure point rather than as a final image. Eschewing literal representation of objects or places, her works evoke sensations and poetics rather than tangible realities. For Lamb, abstraction is about catching life on the wing and transposing it on canvas without petrifying it.
Compared to previous paintings that have often invoked strong botanical themes, these recent paintings feature more complex, ambiguous compositions that fuse imagery from the natural world with distillations of more abstract sensations. For example, the painting Sherbet Lemon, the artist notes, is like 鈥渁 sunny, happy day,鈥� where Round and Round radiates the confidence of a 鈥渇riend who is sure of their journey through life.鈥�
These new works also represent the artist鈥檚 ongoing love of exploring color through oil paint and oil sticks. Oil sticks 鈥渙ffer a quite different way of placing color and form to an image,鈥� according to Lamb, and thus lend additional depth and fibrous texture to the layers of opacity and transparency laid down by oil paint. Rather than creating an under-drawing in graphite or diluted paint, Lamb builds her compositions instinctually through improvisational mark-making, without any preconceived idea of how the finished work will look. Lamb鈥檚 deep engagement with the multifaceted qualities of oil-based mediums yields works that recall the gestural, expressionist works of Ivon Hitchens, Henri Matisse, and Richard Diebenkorn.
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Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Appetite for Color, Chlo毛 Lamb鈥檚 third solo show with the gallery. In her latest body of work, Lamb takes further her exploration of abstraction and the process of transmuting her scenes of everyday life into joyous, sumptuous compositions. Appetite for Color presents twelve of the artist鈥檚 latest paintings and will be on view on the second floor of Hollis Taggart from September 12 through October 12, 2024, with an opening reception on Thursday, September19, from 5-8PM.
Lamb works in the tradition of twentieth-century colorists and abstract expressionists. Her practice, as highlighted by these new works, is characterized by a lively sensitivity to color and careful attention to the formal possibilities of oil paint. Bathed in rich hues of warm yellows and blues, Lamb鈥檚 paintings often filter people, landscapes, and still life compositions through a gestural abstract vocabulary, taking her observations of the world as a departure point rather than as a final image. Eschewing literal representation of objects or places, her works evoke sensations and poetics rather than tangible realities. For Lamb, abstraction is about catching life on the wing and transposing it on canvas without petrifying it.
Compared to previous paintings that have often invoked strong botanical themes, these recent paintings feature more complex, ambiguous compositions that fuse imagery from the natural world with distillations of more abstract sensations. For example, the painting Sherbet Lemon, the artist notes, is like 鈥渁 sunny, happy day,鈥� where Round and Round radiates the confidence of a 鈥渇riend who is sure of their journey through life.鈥�
These new works also represent the artist鈥檚 ongoing love of exploring color through oil paint and oil sticks. Oil sticks 鈥渙ffer a quite different way of placing color and form to an image,鈥� according to Lamb, and thus lend additional depth and fibrous texture to the layers of opacity and transparency laid down by oil paint. Rather than creating an under-drawing in graphite or diluted paint, Lamb builds her compositions instinctually through improvisational mark-making, without any preconceived idea of how the finished work will look. Lamb鈥檚 deep engagement with the multifaceted qualities of oil-based mediums yields works that recall the gestural, expressionist works of Ivon Hitchens, Henri Matisse, and Richard Diebenkorn.
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