Ruth Bachofner Gallery is pleased to present  Sunken Living Room, an exhibition of new paintings by April Street.

Sunken Living Room features large-scale paintings ranging from the undulating density of lively hatching to a complete lack of hierarchy between foreground and background.  The paintings swim in an enigma of what was executed on the surface.  Each painting is drizzled with the familiar and the unknown making her work irreducible to abstraction.  A lightness of touch in this series creates what seems to be a soft film of colored light precisely thrown across the canvas.

Street veils her canvases in a gorgeous tangle of maneuvers:  what is intimately offered to the eye is a garden of perspectives, pushing up through the grounds of Op Art to root them in the contemporary world of image making.  Her forms reveal themselves in stages, like the dissection of a conversation. The paintings' watercolor bloom affects and washes of acrylic seem poised for a struggle between the devised plottings and free formed areas. Intimations, mysterious personal allusions, mirages, and movements converge as her prismatic animations vibrate with a humming energy that could burst off the wall.  April Street is from Virginia and studied at the Art institute of Chicago.  She lives and works in Los Angeles.