Not long ago, it was easy to tell the difference between cars and trucks. Today, crossovers, SUVs and luxury, four-door pickups make it hard to know what you're looking at. The same goes for painting and sculpture, not to mention ceramics and all sorts of artistic hybrids.
At Regen Projects, Liz Larner makes the most of this situation. Rather than trying to turn back the clock by drawing clear lines between media, the L.A. artist's mongrel abstractions cherry-pick the best features of diverse materials to deliver pleasures you can find nowhere else.
Her five small wall-works made of porcelain, stoneware and paint appear to be the super-size offspring of ashes and flower petals, with a hint of insect wings tossed in. Each multipart piece is a subdued celebration of texture, shape and hyper-saturated color, where positive and negative spaces pull and push as they spur you to move around to see the nooks and crannies, shadows and highlights.
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