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Hoffman Donahue is pleased to present currents, a solo exhibition of work by Luz Carabaño. Requiring a close gaze to appreciate her expansive and intricate hand, Carabaño’s paintings and drawings feature delicately softened subjects, each image suspended on a spectrum of legibility. Her small-scale linen canvases have been gessoed and sanded to create a smooth, silky surface where each mark sits on the brink of clarity. This particular body of work is very much about vision itself, rendering ocular experiences and encounters with the external world. Each image proposes a different way of looking, Carabaño’s sustained inquiry into painting’s capacity to recalibrate the eye.
Alongside painting, Carabaño maintains a drawing and bookmaking practice. By default, books have a tactile intimacy. She approximates that same posture through visibly handmade works that slow the eyes and mind, adjust our pace and sense of t…
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Hoffman Donahue is pleased to present currents, a solo exhibition of work by Luz Carabaño. Requiring a close gaze to appreciate her expansive and intricate hand, Carabaño’s paintings and drawings feature delicately softened subjects, each image suspended on a spectrum of legibility. Her small-scale linen canvases have been gessoed and sanded to create a smooth, silky surface where each mark sits on the brink of clarity. This particular body of work is very much about vision itself, rendering ocular experiences and encounters with the external world. Each image proposes a different way of looking, Carabaño’s sustained inquiry into painting’s capacity to recalibrate the eye.
Alongside painting, Carabaño maintains a drawing and bookmaking practice. By default, books have a tactile intimacy. She approximates that same posture through visibly handmade works that slow the eyes and mind, adjust our pace and sense of t…
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