Monya Rowe Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lacey Black titled Cosmic Zoo. 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 says: “I include a lot of different people, animals and things in my paintings, from different moments in time, and also unnamed things, more abstract forms. In Taoist and Buddhist writings, they call this “the ten thousand things” which represents all the material diversity of the universe.”
