Mary Weatherford @ Gagosian

Train Yards, is an exhibition of paintings by Mary Weatherford.  She roots abstract painting in subjective experience, evoking urban and rural environments while experimenting with internal painterly dynamics around light, color, and gesture, as well as the relationship between a painted surface and various three-dimensional addenda.

Weatherford prepares each canvas with a mixture of gesso and marble dust, and conjures a wide range of chromatic and textural effects. In her best-known works, sponged grounds of vinyl-based emulsion on heavy linen panels are surmounted by one or more carefully shaped and placed neon-filled glass tubes.