Erin Lawlor Studio, London, United Kingdom, 2021.
Erin Lawlor (b. 1969 in Epping, United Kingdom) received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Paris IV – La Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Recent solo exhibitions include "Ariadne's delight," Fox/Jensen/McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand (forthcoming); “Earthly Delights,” Vigo Gallery, London, United Kingdom; “Invincible Summer,” Wellington Arch Museum, London, United Kingdom; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Entre chien et loup,” Luca Tommasi Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; “Memory of a free festival,” Fox/Jensen/McCroy, Auckland, New Zealand; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Cat on the raz and other tales from fish island,” Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain; “Hiraeth,” Fox/Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Recent group exhibitions include “Reclaiming a Space,” Irish Arts Center, New York, NY; "Nocturne," Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL; “8am in London, Midnight in LA,” Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, United Kingdom; "UNI[2]ON," UNION Gallery, London, United Kingdom; “Les Furtifs” (presented by Galerie Pauline Pavec), l’Appartement de Jacques Prévert, Paris, France; “The Cabin LA Presents: A Curated Flashback,” Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; "Making a Mark: Abstraction in the Ahmanson Collection,” Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, CA; “Ways of Seeing,” Jarilager Gallery, Cologne, Germany; “Raven,” Fox Jensen, Sydney, Australia; and “Summer Exhibition: Reclaiming Magic,” The Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom.
Her work may be found in the collections of the New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, United Kingdom; the Mark Art Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia; and Space K, Seoul, South Korea.
Lawlor lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
Erin Lawlor's painting Majestic Mickey (2016) is on view in the exhibition The Cabin LA Presents: A Curated Flashback at the Green Family Art Foundation.
Erin Lawlor is featured as one of Artsy's 5 Artists on Our Radar in February 2023.
Invincible Summer, a solo exhibition of paintings by Erin Lawlor, is on view through 19 March at the Wellington Arch Museum in collaboration with Vigo Gallery.
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Erin Lawlor was born in Epping, UK in 1969. Lawlor lived in France from 1987 to 2013, and holds a BA in History of Art and Archaeology from the University of Paris IV – la Sorbonne (1992). She currently lives and works in London. Lawlor has exhibited extensively internationally over the last twenty years; recent exhibitions of note include a presentation at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, ‘Maleri:nu (Paint:now)’, in Copenhagen in 2016; a substantial solo exhibition at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia in 2017; as well as recent solo exhibitions at Rod Barton, Brussels (2016), Espacio Valverde, Madrid (2018), Fifi Projects, Mexico (2018), Fox/Jensen Gallery, Australia (2018), and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2019). She was one of three painters showcased in the Space K exhibition ‘British Painting 2019’ in Seoul, South Korea, this summer. Lawlor is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery in Auckland, NZ, for next spring. She and her work will also be featured in the book ‘Free Spirits’ by Rosie Osborne, to be published next week.
An inaugural solo exhibition of the work of London-based artist Erin Lawlor presents a selection of vivid paintings spanning 2017 – 2019 and evinces advancements in the artist’s trademark brushwork, color usage, and compositional formats. The works in this series build upon painting explorations consisting of a loopy, curvilinear patchwork that produces heightened subtleties between foreground, middle-ground, and background. Constructed from a multitude of axial planes that fully exploit levels of push-pull between the nip, tuck, and fold of her envisioned spaces, Lawlor’s dynamic imagery elicits an impeded desire to peel back layers of curvature that seem to go on interminably.
Erin Lawlor’s paintings, on view at Miles McEnery Gallery through August 16, have a sense of the familiar. Wide brush strokes play off one another, conjuring winding ribbons, rendered systematically like blood flowing to and from the heart — an ebb and flow of the most critical kind. At first glance, the deep rich color drew me in, then the scale, then the whimsy that radiates from the wide, curvy mark-making. But then, as I moved through the gallery with more focus, Lawlor’s paintings evoked a sense of observing the art of an earlier time: the natural integration of motion, body, and presence.
While in town for the opening of her solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, Erin Lawlor stopped in for a chat with Brian Alfred on his podcast "Sound & Vision." During this episode, Erin talks about beating Brexit, process and painting, writing vs. painting, seeing David Bowie live, and much more.
