Lucas Bononi: The Forest
Feb 17, 2022 to Mar 26, 2022
Sugarlift at High Line Nine, 508 W 28th St, New York
About the exhibition
In The Forest, a new body of oil paintings, Lucas Bononi set up a dialogue between people and nature. Paint is slammed onto the surface so that flesh and natural elements marble together, and the features of the earth surface through figuration and abstraction. A gentle river, or perhaps a teasing flame, winds through each subject in his imagined forest.
Bononi (b. 1991, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. His paintings look at nature through the lens of the modern world, weighing the monotony of city life against nature's unrepeatable beauty, and they move freely between figuration and abstraction, beauty and chaos. The show ranged from Jungle, a canvas nearly eight feet tall, to a grid of nine small panels.
The exhibition opened on February 17, 2022, with a packed reception, the show's title set on a dark accent wall.
The works
Lucas Bononi, Jungle2022 · Oil on canvas · 94 x 80 in 
Lucas Bononi, Serranía del Hornocal2022 · Oil on canvas · 50 x 72 in 
Lucas Bononi, Elle2022 · Oil on panel · 56 x 35 in 
Lucas Bononi, Meadow2022 · Oil on canvas · 40 x 30 in 
Lucas Bononi, Bloom2022 · Oil on canvas · 48 x 36 in 
Lucas Bononi, The Wild2022 · Oil on panel · 40 x 28 in 
Lucas Bononi, Flora2022 · Oil on panel · 34 x 21 in 
Lucas Bononi, Yellow, Orange2022 · Oil on panel · 12 x 12 in 
Lucas Bononi, Blue, Orange2022 · Oil on panel · 12 x 12 in
The opening
Press and credits
- Two Coats of Paint: Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: February 2022
- BoldBrush (FASO): BoldStrokes: Lucas Bononi's Upcoming Solo Show at Sugarlift Gallery
Some photographs were color or exposure corrected from the original files.