Robin Kandel
lakewater
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January 11 – February 24, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

“The focus necessary to slowly and repeatedly strike regular paint lines produces a physical state; a fluid rhythm develops and time disappears.”

- Robin Kandel

Robin Kandel’s paintings hover between abstraction and representation. They reference childhood memories and family history. Her paintings create a viewing field, sometimes mistaken for multiple photographs, other times resulting in rhythmic patterning - as with the recent lakewater series, a reverie of growing up in “The Great Lakes State”. Kandel frequently uses video to further ideas in her paintings - putting herself through performative acts in much the same way that a child plays to understand the world. Though this work begins with the personal, nothing is explicit; we can enter our own memories and reveries through her imagery.

Robin Kandel has been with the Andrea Schwartz Gallery since 1995. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Czech Republic. She has been reviewed by Kenneth Baker, Leah Ollman, Peter Frank, Joanna Szupinska and others. She was a recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and a nominee for The Rydell Fellowship. Robin is a native of Michigan, receiving her BFA from University of Michigan; she has lived in California since 1983

Please Note the gallery will be closed January 16 and February 18 - 20