Lacey Black’s paintings are centered around a spiritual practice of going into the unknown, and searching for the unnamed connections within all living beings. Personal, fictitious and historical imagery are incorporated into works that are rooted in figuration, but explore lyricism, abstraction and surrealism. Black aims to create a pictorial language that rests just below the conscious surface. The paintings resist a singular interpretation, preferring to leave some questions unanswered, as they are in life. Black unites the organic with the artificial, bringing together independent shapes, beings, and objects, to create a whole. Images rest within images, elevating simplicity to a more profound meaning with added depth. The imagery in the exhibition presents an otherworldly connection between earth and the heavens while searching for new futures within ostensibly fixed systems.
