Joan Snyder, Lily Ludlow, Mimi Lauter, & Xylor Jane, Sep 4 – Oct 5, 2024

Past: 61 Lispenard St

Installation view of *Joan Snyder, Lily Ludlow, Mimi Lauter, & Xylor Jane*, CANADA, 2024

Artworks

Mimi Lauter,
Untitled,
2024,
14 × 10 inches (35.56 × 25.40 cm)
Soft pastel and oil pastel on paper

Xylor Jane,
2457002, Th. 12/11,
2014,
17 ¾ × 14 ¾ × 1 ½ inches (45.09 × 37.47 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Ink on paper

Joan Snyder,
The Rain,
2004,
15 ½ × 19 ½ × 1 ½ inches (39.37 × 49.53 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Ink, watercolor, pencil on paper

Lily Ludlow,
Falling Delma,
2024,
15 ¾ × 12 ½ × 1 ½ inches (40.01 × 31.75 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Acrylic, chalk, and graphite on paper

Lily Ludlow,
Kit and Nova,
2024,
15 ¾ × 12 ½ × 1 ½ inches (40.01 × 31.75 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Acrylic, chalk, and graphite on paper

Joan Snyder,
Writing,
2006,
17 ½ × 20 ½ × 1 ½ inches (44.45 × 52.07 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Acrylic, pencil, glitter on paper

Joan Snyder,
Untitled (Pink Strokes),
2014,
25 ½ × 34 ¼ × 1 ½ inches (64.77 × 87.00 × 3.81 cm)
Acrylic, pastel, paper fiber, petals on paper

Xylor Jane,
Study for Painting (Sampler for Maine Coon Cats),
2016,
14 ¼ × 12 × 1 ½ inches (36.20 × 30.48 × 3.81 cm)
Ink on paper

Xylor Jane,
Brenda S.,
2005,
33 ½ × 25 ½ × 1 ½ inches (85.09 × 64.77 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Ink on paper

Mimi Lauter,
Green Field,
2024,
70 × 60 inches (177.80 × 152.40 cm)
Soft pastel and oil pastel on paper

Joan Snyder,
Ink Dance,
2015,
25 ¾ × 33 ¾ × 1 ½ inches (65.41 × 85.73 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Watercolor, ink, graphite on paper

Joan Snyder,
Red Spirals,
2009,
26 ½ × 33 ½ × 1 ½ inches (67.31 × 85.09 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
Acrylic, ink, pastel on paper

Press Release

CANADA is pleased to present a show of works on paper by four painters.

Joan Snyder (b. 1940, Highland Park, NJ; lives and works in Woodstock and Brooklyn, NY) first gained public attention in the early 1970s with her gestural “stroke paintings", which employed grids, spray paint and a catalog of unique marks that profoundly reoriented abstract painting. Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential and content of painting, while inspiring generations of emerging artists.

Lily Ludlow (b. 1970, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Port Chester, NY) makes drawings of intimate interior spaces that feature biomorphic shapes, concise linework, earthy colors, and a burnished approach to paint application. Ludlow’s subject matter often includes figures, but the paintings are never completely figurative. The paintings depict semi-abstract people and animals, but it’s also possible to read the forms as machinery, furniture or light passing through gauzy fabric.

Mimi Lauter (b. 1982, San Francisco, CA) makes works on paper that are heavily worked and have a smoldering color sense. Lauter’s process is one of accumulation and removal as she searches for vegetal, geological or abstract imagery inside of each drawing. Hot or cool hues create emotional resonance and an uncanny sense of possibility. Her exuberant sensibility results in works that share the quavering visionary qualities of James Ensor, Odilon Redon and Hilma af Klint.

Xylor Jane (b. 1963, Long Beach, CA) attended the now-closed San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1990s, a period when the school was closely associated with the Mission School artists. Her abstract paintings reference diagrams, series of numbers, grids and the retinal effects of color and pattern. The works are resolutely handmade and maintain a disciplined closeness to the artist’s life that both document her days on earth while generating a distinctly mystical essence.