Cindy Phenix Particles of Abnormality, exhibitions views Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, 2020.
Photos : courtesy of the artist & Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

Cindy Phenix’s recent works combine painting, pastel, and pencil with a plurality of material elements, consolidating the sensoriality already displayed in earlier canvases. Using textile, ceramic, gold leaf, paper, wood, and plywood, Phenix creates singular alliances between techniques, giving rise to a playful chaos that renders obsolete the very notion of categorization, instead urging the creation of sensitive and open relationships among materials.

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