FLORA HAUSER

In Crossing Online, 2022, an especially layered and detail-filled painting, abstract passages of yellow, purple, pink, and green, intersperse with recognizable symbols and shapes drawn in graphite: an eye and a mouth; an upside-down pitchfork; what could be seen as a worm or a snake. The painting swirls with frenzy— the oil and graphite sections leading us around circles of data, much like life online. Life Is Live, 2022, conversely, evokes a much more natural landscape. Pistons, stalks, and petals permeate the pastel canvas, giving us the sensation of a crowded field of flowers. And the titular Only Live Once, 2022, one of the most color-saturated works in the exhibition, showcases Hauser’s penchant for the feverish and intense. A caterpillar shape flies valiantly through the air on the right side of the canvas. Bold, definitive, overlapping sections, including various shades of pink, blue, and peach, along with more white underscoring, call attention to themselves, as if to say: We’re alive, so let’s live.