The Green Gallery and Misako & Rosen will be co-presenting Margaret Lee and Trevor Shimizu at Frieze Los Angeles. This exhibition is the latest in 15 years of collaboration between the galleries, offering an opportunity to highlight two artists who have contributed greatly to both of our histories. Lee and Shimizu’s distilled painterly application capture something fixed yet fleeting. A heightened sense of control is offset by a casualness that toys with historical connotations poised within the work.
Lee’s recent non-representational paintings make clear nods to a history of New York abstraction but her gesture performs an alternative role. There is something sound in Lee’s mark, yet the pace is brisk and perhaps in flux. Color feels recognizable, perhaps being derived from a surrounding periphery. Form occupies a contained field; unwilling or unable to push itself outside its barrier. There is metaphor in these decisions that poignantly leads to thinking outside the rectangle.
Shimizu’s landscape paintings are inviting in their ability to reflect the familiar. Lush surfaces, ambiguous representations of the natural, and a lightness of touch; these works posit a tongue-cheek play, capturing the outside world and flirting with ways it has been depicted in the past. These paintings draw you in with visual splendor but quickly point to their matter-of-factness. They nod to a complex history, yet allow for an openness of experience.
We look forward to sharing these with you in person at booth C14 at Frieze Los Angeles Thursday, February 29 through Sunday, March 3.
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