Paintings
Videos - Stills
About these works
hold-still-life is an exhibition of paintings and videos by Brooklyn-based artist Eric LoPresti at the University of Rochester’s Hartnett gallery.
The paintings are large oil-on-canvas landscapes from LoPresti’s series ‘Rocks and Tapes’, in which renderings of broken Californian landscapes are overlaid with colorful trompe l'oeil tape marks. They are large, chaotic and intense.
The videos are one-minute loops which the artist took during covid, of natural scenes in places like Joshua Tree National Park and a distant fire in the artist’s home town on the Columbia river. Taken without a tripod, they are nearly still.
Together these paintings and videos continue LoPresti’s exploration of nature, disaster, perception and contemporary history on the North American continent.
Paintings
#1261
Dark mode 2
Oil on canvas, 48x72", 2024
#1254
White mode
Oil on canvas, 60x45", 2023
#1253
After the flood / Palouse Falls
Oil on canvas, 36x24", 2023
#1252
Icarus / Red Mountain
Oil on canvas, 40x30", 2023
#1251
After the fire / Joshua Tree
Oil on canvas, 36x24", 2023
#1232
Blackened
Oil on canvas, 40x30", 2022
#1207
Dark mode 1
Oil on canvas, 48x72", 2021
#1195
Downward tapes 3
Oil, acrylics, graphite, spray-paint on linen, 16x20", 202
#1194
Downward tapes 2
Oil, acrylics, graphite, spray-paint on linen, 16x20", 2020
Videos
#1270
Ants, Joshua Tree
Video loop, 1 minute, 2024
#1269
Ravens, Briones
Video loop, 1 minute, 2024
#1268
Palouse Falls runoff
Video loop, 1 minute, 2024
#1267
Palouse Falls
Video loop, 1 minute, 2024
#1266
Rainbow over Badger Mountain
Video loop, 1 minute, 2022
#1263
Burnt creosote bush, Joshua Tree
Video loop, 1 minute, 2021
#1262
Fire on Columbia Point, Richland
Video loop, 1 minute, 2021