Patrice Dworkin

Garis & Hahn is pleased to present The Bluffs, marking LA-based artist Patrice Dworkin's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Heavily influenced by her environment and a strong sense of place, Dworkin's intricately drawn mixed-media paper and sculptural works occupy the liminal space between representation and abstraction. For her current series, she was inspired by the breathtaking coastal sandstone bluffs near her home in Pacific Palisades. The steep, crumbling bluffs of Palisades Park are utilized as a visual symbol of vital conflict and eventual disintegration.

Tondos, or works in circular format, predominate in the series - emphasizing both the meditative nature of the investigation and the tropes of mapmaking. Dworkin's hand-wrought, ink and color-washed tondos serve as imaginary maps of the complex geological structures of the region - translucent, deceptively beautiful abstract evocations of the collision of human, land, and water at the edge of the continent in the early years of the 21st century.

Patrice Dworkin is a Los Angeles-based self-taught artist, working primarily in mixed media on paper. She has had solo exhibitions at G825/Bergamot Station (Santa Monica, CA) and G825/ Digital Symphony (Burbank, CA), and California Federal Bank (Pacific Palisades, CA) and has been in group exhibitions throughout Los Angeles. Her artist books The Bluffs and Resist are included in the Artist Books Collection at Otis College of Art and Design. Dworkin is a partner in The Fourth Artist, A Visual Arts Collaboration, and was invited to participant in Kim Schoenstadt’s “Be Here Now” photograph of Los Angeles female artists in 2016.