WING — A VIRTUAL PROJECT SPACE
WEST WING
PATRICA FABRICANT: OPEN PORTALS AND OTHER DIMENSIONS
April 21st — June 5th, 2020
Photo by Paul Quinn
About Patricia Fabricant:
Patricia Fabricant is a painter and book designer, from New York City. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and studied painting in Italy. Her abstract paintings have been exhibited widely at such galleries as SFA projects, M David & Co, Front Room, Morgan Lehman, the Painting Center and the National Arts Club. More recently she has worked figuratively, both on a political series, Paper Dolls, and on woven self-portraits, which she began in response to the 2016 election and its aftermath. She is also curating shows. She lives in Brooklyn and shares a studio at the EFA, in Manhattan.
Equity Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of WING ---a digital expansion to our current online exhibition Showroom. WING will feature curated projects by our members with a focus on solo production, novel processes, and aesthetic experimentation. Foregrounding emergent practices at accessible price points, WING will offer a focused lens on cultural advancement and signal patronage support, critical review and aspirational collecting.
Long standing Artist Equity member Patricia Fabricant will be featured in the inaugural project with a series of small abstract gouache -on- panel paintings completed in her kitchen studio over the course of the pandemic.
In a companion essay to the exhibition covering both the artist and her new series, Michael Gormley writes:
“The series is perhaps one of the strongest explorations to come out of Fabricant’s studio work--perhaps because they were created in spite of, and in response to, the terrifying episode we are attempting to push through. Offering a highly activated color field as a salubrious visionary space, these must-have gems recall the 1970s Pattern and Decorative movement promoted by the pioneer SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon….works that were unabashedly emotive, intuitive, and often stunningly beautiful.”