A reception will be held on September 11 from 6 to 8 pm, and the artist will be present. The show will remain on view until October 26th. In her third solo exhibition with the gallery, Huey remains deeply invested in the psychology of relationships and devoted to the construction of intimate allegories employing architecture and natural elements.
Akin to poetry, her tableaux explore a disjunctive space between the concrete and metaphysical. Huey's new series of paintings is a musing on the science of attraction and the complex emotional terrain of longing.
Conjuring amorous encounters, Huey is shamelessly romantic with her visual metaphors, panoramic vistas, and windows of perception all to evoke the power of a passionate embrace. Informed by history and literature, the imaginary settings, characters, and palette change with each panel, defying the particularities of space and chronology of time.
Huey works the paintings' surface into a thickly applied impasto of oil paint, sometimes directly with the hand sans brush, imbuing it with physical and metaphorical dimensionality.
Suffused by an array of influencesβthe montaged love stories of R. Her kaleidoscopic visual treatment of couples frolicking within and without interior spaces refers to the mind and heart. Elizabeth Huey b. Reviews of her work have appeared in Artforum, Hyperallergic, and New York Magazine , among other publications. Huey lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
