UPCOMING EXHIBITION - FEBRUARY 2025

FAHRENHEIT GALLERY, Madrid, SPAIN

CANADA is pleased to announce Living On Hart a one-person exhibition of paintings and drawings by Janis Provisor in the gallery’s 61 Lispenard street space. The works range in size from large to medium in format and are executed with watery or thick watercolor and water soluble oil paint on canvas or
paper. The paint handling is forthright, and the semi-abstract imagery hints at a sense of both pathos and humor. While colorful, Provisor has a palette all her own, full of saturated yet muted color that she often places on top of dark grounds which give the paintings a nocturnal feel. She will often let the paint trickle and puddle on the surfaces creating shapes that have the look of crenulated coral or give the impression of gazing at a Tang Dynasty scholar rock; full of suggestions but no answers.

The paintings feel casual but never flip. Provisor often starts a painting by scrawling handwritten stream of consciousness notes across the surface of the painting with colored pencil. These notes gradually get covered as she works, becoming reminiscent of the gauzy scrawls Cy Twombly used to allude to writing while acting as cyphers that kept meanings tantalizingly elusive. Provisor's process sets the emotional tone. The works are autobiographical in nature, giving Provisor a psychic push as she maintains a precarious balance in the paintings.

CANADA GALLERY, NYC
NOVEMBER 22 - JANUARY 11

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