Michael Kohn Gallery presents Glade, an exhibition of new works by German artist Rosa Loy. For her third solo exhibition with the gallery, Loy presents a group of casein paintings and watercolors on paper. Glade will be on view from March 9, 2024 through April 20, 2024. 

Michael Kohn Rosa Loy

One of the few female members of the New Leipzig School, Loy took up painting the same year as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With origins as a trained horticulturist, she brings a surrealist’s eye to renderings of lush flora and uncanny all-female worlds.

Rosa Loy, Aufnahme, 2024, casein on canvas, 31 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches

The Work

Throughout a monumental thirty-year practice, the artist has created a striking oeuvre in which this show expands. In Glade, Loy’s easel is a crossroads where German folklore is mixed with the artist’s subconscious. These visually intricate stories—their rich symbolism recalling Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the tradition of Surrealist female painters of the 20th century, such as Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, Toyen, and Leonora Carrington—are wide open to viewer interpretation. Loy further situates her cryptic narratives within lichtung; a word she describes as “the place in the middle of a dark forest where the sun is shining.” Above all, this clearing is a site of rest amid a turbulent present.

On view: March 9, 2024 – April 20, 2024

What: Glade, Rosa Loy
Where: Kohn Gallery, 1227 North Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
When: Running through April 20, 2024
Website: http://www.kohngallery.com

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