NARANJO 141 is pleased to present An indispensable thing, a show of two artists who turn to the material properties of paint to interrogate their most pressing personal questions. One, Carrie Rudd, an analytical abstractionist whose elaborate geometric landscapes uncover uncharted pictorial and psychological pathways. The other, Lola Stong-Brett, a figurative expressionist whose graceful brushwork enshrouds glimpses of human longing. Taken together, An indispensable thing reveals the formal breadth of two artists whose most urgent explorations can only be carried out on canvas.

It’s a cliche for an artist to say that they couldn’t live without their practice, but occasionally, an artist’s work offers proof that what they do is an existential matter. In the depth of Rudd’s investigations, we can see a tireless will to give physical form to subjective experience, and in Stong-Brett’s gestures, we are reminded of a certain register of longing that can only be articulated with the brush. The two painters’ formal languages couldn’t be more different, but their practices are bonded by something more fundamental: the recognition that their most crucial expressions can only be given form through painting, that indispensable thing

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