Laurie Yehia

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Laurie Yehia's work is visually a combination of stained glass window meets mosaic collage with paint. Using tiny paint chips that she incorporates into the paintings, she emulates both techniques with bright colors that are simultaneously forming shapes and vaguely figurative references while also intersected by ropey lines. Yehia creates landscapes that are infused by medieval traditions and contrasted with urban scrawl. Areas of canvases are akin to concrete walls or walks with crude writing. Other areas feel like graffiti that has been not spray painted over and over again. There is a constant covering and revealing; mosaics are made murky with over painting while others are jewel like. Huge areas are abstract paintings within paintings, rough terrains of dried patchy land sit next to stellar galaxies. This is a kind of grand map making where not only physical environments are explored but society's psyche and art through the ages, are also probed. These are detailed maps where you can click on the zoom magnifier and see into the past and present in constellations that travel through the memory of cultures that have gone before and exist in the here and now.

This pop up show runs through today at the Santa Monica Bay Women's Club.

Check out Yehia's website.