Erin Lawlor
ERIN LAWLOR
525 West 22nd Street
3 February - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Erin Lawlor,’ 3 February 2022 - 12 March 2022
Selected Works
Erin Lawlor, allegory I, 2020, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm
Erin Lawlor, circe, 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, conch, 2021, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, cornfield (vincent), 2021, Oil on canvas, 13 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches, 35 x 45 cm
Erin Lawlor, distant voices, 2021, Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches, 45 x 35 cm
Erin Lawlor, electric sheep, 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, frolic (the waves), 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, gimblette, 2021, Oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches, 180 x 120 cm
Erin Lawlor, hot (smacker), 2021, Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches, 45 x 35 cm
Erin Lawlor, kooks, 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, la vie en rose, 2021, Oil on canvas, 74 7/8 x 153 1/2 inches, 190 x 390 cm
Erin Lawlor, lay it down, 2020, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm
Erin Lawlor, light ahead, 2020, Oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches, 180 x 120 cm
Erin Lawlor, midsummer, 2020, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm
Erin Lawlor, minnie, 2021, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, river, 2020, Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches, 40 x 30 cm
Erin Lawlor, roll on Mae, 2020 Oil on canvas 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches 90 x 70 cm
Erin Lawlor, roller, 2021, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm
Erin Lawlor, shell/lip, 2020, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm
Erin Lawlor, stormfront, 2021, Oil on canvas, 13 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches, 35 x 45 cm
Erin Lawlor, strawberry chops, 2021, Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches, 45 x 35 cm
Erin Lawlor, summer storm, 2021, Oil on canvas, 74 7/8 x 102 3/8 inches, 190 x 260 cm
Erin Lawlor, the misfits, 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm
Press Release
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is delighted to announce an exhibition of recent work by Erin Lawlor. The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery will open on 3 February at 525 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 12 March 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Grant Vetter.
Lawlor’s most recent body of paintings were produced during various intermittent periods over the last two years — interludes between lockdowns and forced halts. Representing snapshots of windows of time in the artist’s studio, “The paintings came to represent moments that encapsulate the peculiar life-drive that goes hand in hand with the hardest of times, along with the tenuous belief that there is joy out the other side of the darkness.” Lawlor expresses, “It is, I hope, an exhibition of color, light, and life.” Deft, spontaneous, and lyrical, the exhibition reveals the expressive wonder of oil paint and paint handling as a form of pictorial writing.
The artist states, “For my second exhibition at the gallery, I wanted to convey a more varied emotional spectrum with my pictorial language, a breadth of range conveyed not just by color and space, but format, and the speed, or otherwise distillation, of mark- making.” The canvas serves as a terrain for complete engagement of the body in which gestural marks in discrete passages of paint come together through an immersive and performative experience. The paintings capture a moment in time and a movement in space.
Lawlor felt it was important to convey “the moods of color and light that subsist beyond, to channel lighter [and brighter] times,” as demonstrated in light ahead, strawberry chops, and the warmth conveyed in summer storm. There are musical titles throughout the show, but the smaller works in particular, are packed with bursts of both color and character, that feel like independent vignettes or songs on an album. The large triptych la vie en rose is “a joyful and immersive painterly dance.” At nearly 13 feet wide, its title is a reference to French singer Édith Piaf’s signature song as well as Joan Mitchell’s 1979 multi-panel masterpiece that is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
