Interiors: Faris McReynolds Claudia Parducci

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is pleased to present Interiors, an exhibition of new works by Faris McReynolds and Claudia Parducci. Challenging notions of painting vocabulary, these energetic compositions actively engage the viewer as surface tensions resist passive comprehension.

Nye+ Brown

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Nye+BrownMarch 2nd, 2013

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2685 South La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles Ca 90034

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310 559 5215gallery@nyeplusbrown.com

Faris McReynolds

McReynolds depicts disorganized, neglected domestic spaces rendered in quick decisive strokes. A tangled mass of loosely articulated trappings suggests a life in turmoil, upon which is layered a secondary image plane. Thick, brightly colored abstract forms obscure the represented space, rocketing the viewer into a parallel universe. A calculated intervention that forces the question: is it this or that? (This AND that?) You are drawn to the act of painting, a deliberate mark concealing another. Like The Department of Disinformation, the abstractions obliterate and reveal. The eye desires more, to see it all, and is faced with the utter impossibility, a futile attempt.

Faris McReynolds has exhibited extensively throughout the US and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include Toxic Mimics at Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium and © California/West Coast USA: Faris McReynolds at the Cultuurcen-trum Kortrijk, In Kortrijk, Belgium. He is a graduate of Otis College of Art and Design.

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Parallel Concerns | 2013 | Oil on canvas | 37 x 45 inches

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Dreamwave | 2012 | Oil on canvas | 37 x 45 inches

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Everywhere the Sun Goes | 2013 | Oil on canvas | 61 x 45 inches

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In Circles | 2013 | Oil on canvas | 67 x 51 inches

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Way Long Gone | 2013 | Oil on canvas | 45 x 61 inches

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Better Things | 2012 | Oil on canvas | 37 x 45 inches

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Tiny Diamond | 2013 | Oil on canvas | 51 x 67 inches

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Deep Sleep | 2012 | Oil in canvas | 76 x 62 inches

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Claudia Parducci

Claudia Parducci presents exterior views of houses on fi re or decimated by storms. Expressive han-dling of paint communicates the dire atmosphere—thick with heat and smoke or still with the aftermath of destruction. Overlaid is a series of shapes—cir-cles and rectangles in red or silver. The repeating symbols are unrecognizable to most—but in truth form Morse code messages like “Tell Me How to Disappear Without A Trace,” “Fucked,” and “Await Verbal Instructions.” Scenes are amplifi ed with this revelation of personal urgency. The landscape becomes psychic terrain; an interior mapping that reveals areas of linguistic collapse. For Parducci, the interest lies in “the space between what is seen and said, and what is heard and observed.”

Claudia Parducci received her BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She has exhibited at Galleries Lara Tokyo and Eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tijuana, Mexico; and Nyehaus, New York. Her paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition at the Torrance Art Mu-seum. Both artists live and work in Los Angeles.

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I Will Go On Or Not | 2012 | Oil, acrylic on canvas | 60 x 72 inches

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Is It Safe To Speak | 2012 | Oil, acrylic on canvas | 72 x 60 inches

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Fucked | 2012 | Acrylic, oil on canvas | 70 x 78 inches

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Abandon All Hope | 2012 | Acrylic, oil,a silver foil on canvas | 48 x 72 inches

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Await Verbal Instruction | 2012 | Acrylic, oil, silver foil on canvas | 48 x 72 inches

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Doomed | 2012 | Acrylic, oil, silver foil on canvas | 60 x 72 inches

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Tell me how to disappear without a trace | 2012 | Acrylic, oil, silver foil on canvas | 70 x 78 inches

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Tell Me Where The Dog Lies Buried | 2012 | Acrylic, oil, silver foil on canvas | 74 x 44 inches

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Come Get Me | 2013 | Acrylic, oil, silver foil on canvas | 48 x 78 inches

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I See I See | 2013 | Acrylic, silver foil on canvas | 70 x 78 inches

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Tell Mom I Love Her | 2013 | Acrylic, oil, silver foil on canvas | 52 x 60 inches

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Hurricane Drawing (Photo negative 2) | 2013 | Acrylic on Strathmore | 18 x 24 inches

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Blimp Explosion Drawing (Photo negative 3) | 2013 | Acrylic on Strathmore | 18 x 24 inches

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Hurricane Drawing (Photo negative 1) | 2013 | Acrylic on Strathmore | 18 x 24 inches

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House Fire Drawing (Photo Negative 5) | 2013 | Acrylic on Strathmore | 18x24 inches

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House Fire Study (photo negative 6) | 2013 | Acrylic on Arches paper | 22 x 30 inches

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Hurricane Drawing (Photo Negative 4) | 2013 | Acrylic on Strathmore | 18 x 20 inches

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2685 South La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034

gallery@nyeplusbrown.com310 559 5215

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