La Loma Projects

Los Angeles

Nancy Friedland, “Blink,” 2024, acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Description

The Romantic writer John Keats once observed that all one needs to write poetry is a “feeling for
light and shade.” Nancy Friedland and Ryan Dobrowski’s lucent compositions make a similar
case, not for poetry but for painting. Both artists modulate the effects of light and darkness to
wrest significance from ambiguity. Evincing the generative potential of irresolution, their
pictures tarry the porous boundaries between night and day, confusing the distinctions between
the ethereal and material world, the province of dreams and reality.

Artist Bio(s)

Contact

Website: www.lalomaprojects.com

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Ryan Dobrowski, “Stairs to the Orange Trees,” 2024, oil on linen, 34 x 42 inches (86.4 x 106.7 cm)
Ryan Dobrowski, “Waterfall,” 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.9 cm)

Artworks