Looking Outwards to Look Inwards: Etel Adnan, Milton Avery, Ilse D’Hollander

Victoria Miro is delighted to present Looking Outwards to Look Inwards, a three-person exhibition of paintings by Etel Adnan, Milton Avery and Ilse D’Hollander. This exhibition features three artists whose lives spanned the twentieth century, working across different generations and geographies yet united by their distilled observations of place and the journeys that inspired them. None of the paintings on view were made en plein air; the artists inhabited and experienced landscapes only to draw on them from memory back in the studio. In their canvases, the living landscape is translated into simplified, sometimes geometric, though always intensely charged passages of colour. The exhibition is accompanied by a new essay, entitled Landscape and Abstraction, by Christopher Riopelle, Curator, National Gallery, London.