Annie Lapin at Miles McEnery Gallery

LA artist Annie Lapin conjures images from accidents, pouring a charcoal water solution over a prepared surface and embellishing the results with analogue and digitally created effects that she transcribes to canvas.  In ‘Defenestration,’ a few deft additions to the central shape turns a stain into an escaping figure hightailing it out of a raw linen canvas.  A metaphor for emerging artistic creativity?  (On view at Miles McEnery Gallery in Chelsea through Nov 10th).

Annie Lapin, Defenestration, charcoal, acrylic, flocking and vinyl paint on linen, 30 x 26 x 3 inches, 2018.