Patty Wickman's Mesmerizing Art on View at Bergamot Station
LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Leah Ollman
Patty Wickman’s astonishing work at Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica calls to mind William Blake’s oft-quoted invitation to see a world in a grain of sand. In Wickman’s painting “First Bite,” one of Western culture’s essential narrative threads announces itself via a simple backyard snapshot. The epic resides in the everyday. This is Eden; this is home. The painting shows a little boy standing on a garden paver, one hand holding a just-bitten apple, the other reaching across his body as if to cover his nakedness. One bite of the fruit and self-consciousness begins to supplant innocence. Wickman, based in L.A., loads but never overloads her sense impressions with symbolism. [More]
By Leah Ollman
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| “First Bite” by Patty Wickman, 2018-19, on view at Lora Schlesinger Gallery. Oil on linen, 84 inches by 104 inches. (From Patty Wickman and Lora Schlesinger Gallery) |