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A World Without Weather
The flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
Her previous shows at Rachel Uffner — featuring highly colored landscapes, still lifes, and interiors — were lovely but felt like a decorative holding pattern. The new works are two-dimensional sublimities of color, texture, and complexity, as if fellow Angeleno Jonas Wood’s large smooth paintings had been mixed with Matisse, the Pattern and Decoration painters of the 1970s (most of whom were women), and Hallmark greeting cards. Van Gogh, Niki de Saint Phalle, William Blake, Cézanne, Eva Hesse, Albert York, Gabriele Münter — a declaration of totemic kinships and a family tree of influences.
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