ERIN LAWLOR
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Erin Lawlor, born in England, who until recently lived and worked in Paris for many years, is gaining wider recognition through her international exhibitions. In her painting, she succeeds in reorienting gestural abstraction with a focus on creating spaces. She achieves this through a kind of viscous flow, a broad, flowing sweep of wet, diluted paint from a palette of dark yet floral colors (acid green, murky purple, fleshy pink). This gloom is interrupted by bright, delicate moments. Although the works are always in oil, the surface appears chalky, matte, and light-absorbing. The remarkably intense colors are muted at first glance. The broad brushstrokes give the works the intimacy of a sketch and the weight of a monument. The paintings appear in an indeterminate scale; they feel larger or smaller than their actual size: an illusion of space.

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Portal Art History by G. Baumann, September 24, 2015

Klaus Braun ventures into the first German exhibition of the enchanting color field painter Erin Lawler. The English artist presents bold colors, courageously mixing green, purple, and pink, but adds a matte restraint to the oil paint to lend an impressive intimacy to the garish presence.