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Fran莽ois Ghebaly is proud to present a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Miami-based painter Victoria Gitman. 

Victoria Gitman鈥檚 paintings鈥攕mall, seductive oil compositions on board鈥攊ntertwine the experiences of vision and touch. Depicting vintage fur purses or overlapping swaths of dyed fur down to each individual hair, the works in the exhibition are rendered with painstaking precision yet retain a distinctive warmth, softness and luminosity. Gitman works directly from handbags and other materials sourced from flea markets, vintage stores, and secondhand shops online. By seeking out subjects with geometric patterning and patchwork designs, she creates images in which the formal representations verge on the abstract. Their intimate size, dictated by a one-to-one scale rendering of the fur surfaces, imbues them with a quiet but powerful pull, luring the viewer into a close proximity where the act of seeing becomes charged with tactility. 

The exhibition includes two paintings from an ongoing series in which vintage fur purses are set, life-sized, against a ground of solid color, as well as three paintings that introduce a new group of works focusing solely on overlapping layers of fur arranged in minimalist compositions. These are the first paintings for which Gitman created her own arrangements of materials rather than drawing from the found object. Despite their pictorial illusionism, the works equally evoke the high abstraction of twentieth century painters like Kazimir Malevich, Ellsworth Kelly, and Bridget Riley, flipping the relationships between abstraction, objecthood, surface, and scale that drove art historical discourses around Minimalism and its offshoots.