Billis Williams Gallery presents two exhibitions – “Patricia Chidlaw: Points of Interest,” and “Carla Falb: Sky Lights.” An opening reception will be held on February 25, 2023, and will run through March 25, 2023.

Patricia Chidlaw, Sunset, Container Train, 2022, oil on linen, 32 x 42 inches

Patricia Chidlaw

This is the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition of the Southern California artist’s oil paintings. The exhibition features Patricia Chidlaw’s new urban landscape paintings focusing on the great Los Angeles region and continues through March 25, 2023. The artist is endlessly attracted to light: to the changing light of morning and evening, to shadows at play over Los Angeles, to the subtle shades of the color in the sky and clouds. And while natural light is omnipresent in her work, Chidlaw is deeply drawn to the concrete and steel of the constructed world.

Carla Falb

“Carla Falb: Sky Lights” is the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the Southern California artist’s paintings. The exhibition features Falb’s fireworks series. Carla Falb can trace her attraction to light emerging from the darkness back to her childhood. Memories of riding in the backseat of the family car at night, sleepy after a weekend at the beach, transfixed by the white and red car lights speeding by; memories of sitting on her father’s shoulders at a crowded Fourth of July fireworks display, mesmerized by the explosions of lights in the sky; memories of Christmas Eve midnight services with her father at the pulpit, encouraging a full congregation to hold up their glowing candles with extended arms to light up a dark church. The symbolism of light overcoming darkness became a powerful force from an early age.

On view: February 25 – March 25, 2023

What: New Exhibitions
Where: Billis Williams Gallery LA, 2716 S La Cienega Blvd., LA, 90034
Website: http://www.billiswilliams.com