Anat Ebgi is delighted to announce Love in a Mist, an exhibition by Los Angeles artist Samantha Thomas. This is Thomas’s first solo presentation in New York in over a decade and features new abstract paintings. On view at 372 Broadway in Tribeca from April 18 through June 14. An opening reception will take place on Friday, April 18 from 6-8 pm.
Samantha Thomas begins with the primary building blocks of painting: color, shape, texture, line, space, and light. Love in a Mist explores the potential of abstraction to uncover meaning and emotion suspended in color and form—be it joy, sadness, love, affection, excitement, surprise, boredom, shock, confusion, or the hidden layers of one’s own history.
Using common studio materials Thomas is ever-exploratory in her applications. She weaves, unravels, coats, folds, stretches her materials to their limits. For the woven works Thomas combines techniques of destruction and repair. Cutting away portions of stretched canvas and reweaving new…
