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Petzel is pleased to present That Thought Might Think, an exhibition of panoramic paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Emma Webster, opening Friday, March 7, 2025. The show marks Webster’s solo debut with the gallery and will be on view through April 12, 2025, at 520 West 25th Street. These new works are Webster’s largest to date, and depict expansive, revelatory vistas of genesis and apocalypse. Painted amid the Los Angeles fires, her two paintings offer a front row seat into dramatic, fantastical maquettes of rupturing landscapes. Morphing light, space, and scale, Webster speaks to the precarity of the natural world and the role of artifice.
The artist’s duet of paintings plays with a shifting sense of beginning, end, and causation. The Material World evokes a cool, Proterozoic majesty. Verdant with foliage beneath eclipsed sunlight, the viewer faces a front of cut-out trees, scraggly and bare-boughed. Meanwhile, Era of Eternity is a celestial ra…
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Petzel is pleased to present That Thought Might Think, an exhibition of panoramic paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Emma Webster, opening Friday, March 7, 2025. The show marks Webster’s solo debut with the gallery and will be on view through April 12, 2025, at 520 West 25th Street. These new works are Webster’s largest to date, and depict expansive, revelatory vistas of genesis and apocalypse. Painted amid the Los Angeles fires, her two paintings offer a front row seat into dramatic, fantastical maquettes of rupturing landscapes. Morphing light, space, and scale, Webster speaks to the precarity of the natural world and the role of artifice.
The artist’s duet of paintings plays with a shifting sense of beginning, end, and causation. The Material World evokes a cool, Proterozoic majesty. Verdant with foliage beneath eclipsed sunlight, the viewer faces a front of cut-out trees, scraggly and bare-boughed. Meanwhile, Era of Eternity is a celestial ra…
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