Deborah Zlotsky, Giotto's lucid dream, 2017
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present BTW, Deborah Zlotsky's third solo show at the gallery. BTW, Zlotsky's new series of abstract paintings, arose from an unexpected muse: a garage sale purchase of striped bed sheets from the 1970s. The vintage sheets' rich colors and repetitive patterns trigger a synesthetic response in Zlotsky, recalling her earliest memories of space, light and movement, and a childhood when sleep came easily, long before the all-consuming pull of electronic media. The stripes convey order and beauty, and a depth of references including the history of geometric abstract painting, the measurements of and fluctuations within human and geological time, and the way people stack and pile to process the everyday glut of items in their lives.