Lyle Perkins : Ways and Means

8 Nov-14 Dec 2019

Overview

In Lyle Perkins’ first exhibition at Lychee one, he presents a series of recent paintings, which though varied in subject matter, all seem to frame everyday reality in an uncanny way. The compositions derive from photographs that are often reconfigured or retaken until the resulting image closes in on both the original fixation and the imminent painting. Many of the scenes are found during walks between home and studio, or in other prosaic moments. On encountering them, the structure of reality sometimes slips and things begin to obey a different kind of logic or be saturated in a kind of hyper-reality.