‘Piper,’ Lucy Bull’s (@lucypieperbull) first solo exhibition in New York, includes new paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist. Among the works on view are large-scale vertical paintings whose complex relationship to human scale generates unexpected effects. Since the upper portions of these canvases elude close-up viewing, they resist the kinds of microscopic examinations that allow viewers to visually dissect their central or lower sections. The instinct to analyze, therefore, meets resistance too, as looking becomes precipitated on acts of surrender and pure imagination analogous to those Bull induces in herself while painting. In varied ways, the paintings are negotiations with the physical dimensions and sensorial capacities of the human figure; with the desire to see and to find meaning in chaotic conditions; and with the instinct to do justice to a full range of feelings, self-conceptions, and modes of expression. ‘Piper’ will be on view September 10 through October 15, 2022. Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, September 10 from 6 until 8 PM at our New York gallery. Image: #LucyBull, ‘17:50,’ 2022, oil on linen. Photo: Elon Schoenholz