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Drawing and Painting

Anita Lasek

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Painting
2023
oil on canvas
30 x 40"
Examining the personal relationship between oneself and loss, Lasek takes on an emotional dialogue through this work. Once we lose someone, time alters our memory of them, what is their memory of us? Within the emotional composition, the figure grasps a hazy apparition in a vulnerable and desperate attempt to embrace.

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2023, Anatomy of Blue (Solo Show)
Ada Slaight Gallery

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Anita Lasek

Drawing & Painting

“My paintings consider grief through an investigation of the body as a tangible site of stability. Exploring figurative form in a gestural manner, I return to personal narratives of grief and the...” [More]