SAVE THE DATE Opening Friday December 16! Mia Vallance @miami_mv solo show « painting for a short future » from 6pm-9pm 81 Boulevard Beaumarchais “A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. OnlyThere is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either” - T.S Elliot, Wasteland. Mia Vallance’s Painting for a Short Future presents a perturbed body of work. Frenetic brushstrokes amongst swathes of colour have come to be her signature, but what is debuting here is an overwhelming sense of decay and uncertainty. The paintings in the show echo T.S Elliot’s oneiric yet corporeal poem Wasteland. Having referenced the line ‘breeding lilacs out of the dead earth,’ Mia’s paintings suggest heavy heads on thin stems, seeping colours marred by overwhelming browns and dark places. There’s a timelessness to the phenomenon of decay, yet she also acknowledges the specificity of the disconcerting times she paints in. Words by Esme Blair ✒️ #superzoomart #miavallance #contemporarypainting #parisiangallery