in the deep end shows a more pronounced intimacy and emphasis on solitary figures in various states of intense emotion that was purposefully absent in earlier work.
Laura Mosquera continues her fascination painting fashionable people in abstract environments, but the work in her exhibition in the deep end shows a more pronounced intimacy and emphasis on solitary figures in various states of intense emotion that was purposefully absent in earlier work. The lone painting included in the show was the catalyst for the exhibition, which is dominated by a new series of obsessive-yet-soft colored pencil drawings alongside her remarkably delicate graphite drawings. Still working from her own snapshots, Mosquera also takes inspiration from fashion magazines and movie stills. Her “…compositional device is cinematic, used in movies to suggest intimacy between a singular subject and a mass audience.” Christopher Knight, LA Times.
