OCHI is happy to current Eventide, a solo exhibition of current work by Los Angeles-based artist Paige Turner-Uribe. That is Turner-Uribe’s debut exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will probably be on view at OCHI, positioned at 3301 W Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, California via Might 24, 2025.
Eventide options work of quotidian moments softened by environment. Progressively layering, wiping away, and reapplying oil paint, Paige Turner-Uribe generates an phantasm of air, permitting mild to maneuver and create depth via the floor of her works. Shifting between scenes inside her residence, noticed moments from her neighborhood, and panoramic views of Los Angeles, Turner-Uribe considers the diffusion and translucence of early night and morning mild because it interacts with coloration—overlapping and mixing varieties as they soften on the edges. Although abnormal, the moments captured inside her residence are as fleeting because the outside mild—her daughter along with her nostril buried in a e book, making use of mascara, or displaying off a freshly picked flower in a close-by park.
Typically depicting her daughters, Turner-Uribe joins the longstanding artwork historic custom of artists portray their youngsters, households, and shut companions. Offering an intimate glimpse into the artist’s private life with tenderness and connection, the apply additionally displays broader social context, capturing on a regular basis life. Turner-Uribe refers back to the home familiarity of artists resembling Gwen John and her observational work of ladies holding books; Mary Cassatt’s tender depictions of ladies’s internal lives and refined play of sunshine; and Paula Modorsohn-Becker’s nude self-portraits, amongst others. She paints a radiant sundown and consists of the quite a few trash cans on the road; she options palms and a luminous house inside alongside a dilapidated tarp catching the wind; and he or she depicts her daughter on their balcony amongst the moon rise over the billboards and buildings that obscure the distant hills. In casting a glowing night mild on the in any other case mundane, Turner-Uribe honors the polarities and realities of life in Los Angeles. Within the blue hour of nightfall, town and its flaws all really feel a bit extra magical.
