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Stephanie schechter: Nature, Precision + Flow

Press Release:

This exhibition featured a selection of Stephanie Schechter’s new nature inspired abstract paintings. Schechter, a painter known for her photorealistic oil paintings of signs and architecture, recently began to explore nature as a subject. This exhibition highlights the results of that exploration from two very different angles.

In her Precision Series nature works, Schechter follows a similar process to her paintings of signs and architecture. She looked to WPA posters for inspiration for how to represent nature with a limited palette and limited details. The resulting large oil paintings express the qualities she finds beautiful about a place using “the fewest words.” By focusing on form and color, and refining the composition to its simplest elements, she creates minimalistic, yet powerful imagery.

While she loves every step of her Precision Series process, Schechter felt a craving to create art that is more spontaneous, and where the outcome can’t be predicted ahead of time. She says “I longed to lose track of time, become fully engaged, and enter into a “flow state.” Her new Flow series paintings are the most expressive works she has ever created. Using new materials and techniques, and following her instincts, she creates richly layered and textured works on paper.