The Intangible Forest
March 23 – April 26, 2021 | 79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY
Halsey McKay Gallery is thrilled to present The Intangible Forest, Raymie Iadevaia’s first solo show with the gallery. Iadevaia’s intimately scaled landscapes are densely packed with marks built up into sublime atmospheres with impact that belie their modest size. The passages of paint—thick and thin, scraped and scumbled over, rubbed in, stained, and saturated—flutter in and out of focus in optical vibrations. They induce a hallucinatory effect of light holding itself taut, dancing in the pit of the eye, as in a daze, when language and logic cut out and the primacy of sight and intuition return. His imagined vistas depict those moments when it suddenly becomes dark, turning from day to night in a snap, triggering a reflection on the immediate past. Often referred to as Entre Chien et Loup, that time of day when the light is such that it becomes difficult to distinguish between a dog and a wolf, between friend and foe, between known and unknown.