Recent work by Samantha Fields, Benicia Gantner and Coleen Sterritt June 11 - August 6, 2022
Traywick Contemporary is pleased to announce We Are Now, an exhibition of recent work by three California based artists: Samantha Fields (Los Angeles), Benicia Gantner (Marin County) and Coleen Sterritt (Los Angeles).
Reminiscing about time spent and time lost, this exhibition explores our changing world as we look back over the recent past, and think ahead to what the future might hold. Each artist relies on real-world materials and imagery to create work that reflects shared experiences through observational study of daily life. Suggesting moments of transition, their work encourages viewers to look more closely at the fragile world around us, and to experience firsthand the possibility of transformation.
An artist that typically relies on travel for her creative process, Samantha Fields looks for the changing light and shifting atmosphere of specific locations in her attempts to capture the ineffable in her paintings. Confined to home during the pandemic, Fields began looking to the outer world from her windows, to escape her confines through the pinpoint-focused view of scopes, which in turn introduced new vistas swimming in color and light. The experiential nature of Fields’ paintings immerses the viewer in fleeting moments: smoke lingering in the sky from nearby fires, the blur of city lights reflected on wet pavement, the blazing sun in unprecedented heat waves, or transient shadows shifting across a nighttime landscape. The transitory flashes she depicts in her paintings – gone nearly as soon as they begin – speak to the ephemeral qualities of both time and beauty.