303 Gallery, New York Maureen Paley, London Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 2011
Catalogue Essay
‘Scenes are empty of people. No eyes are looking back at us, or at least none that we can see. Often, buildings are depicted without doors or windows; they are containers, ostensibly shapes and structures like anything else that appears in the paintings, such as trees or rocks. […] To the subjectivity of the viewer or, presumably, also to Gallace, narratives are here to be invented; nothing is provided other than the trace of a loaded brush over a surface. Even if her paintings are indexical, they are paintings—not postcards. We are left asking, where is this? Who might live here, and is anyone home?’ — (David Rhodes, 'Maureen Gallace: Clear Day', The Brooklyn Rail, September 2017, online.)