Erin Lawlor, This Fearful Country (Enchanted Trifles), detail, 2019. Quadriptych, outer panels 200 x 120cm, innerpanels 200 x 140cm, overall 200 x 520cm. Courtesy: the artist and Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland.

Fox Jensen McCrory presents work by Erin Lawlor. The fields that Lawlor paints increasingly extend beyond the viewers horizon, seeming to stretch like the seasons – in front and behind us. The panels enclose our senses in a forceful chromatic envelope that coils and swirls like music, displacing language with its powerful synaesthesia and twisting reverb. They can be rich and thundering and yet there are passages that are secretive, almost soundless. Their mood and temperature morph too, sometimes within the same painting, and on occasion it seems within the same brushstroke. This exhibition marks Lawlor’s second presentation with the gallery.

This exhibition can be viewed online on the gallery website. View exhibition here.

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