MARILYN LERNER

In a painting practice that stretches over five decades, New York-based Marilyn Lerner has developed a unique visual vocabulary of colour and form, producing compositions that reverberate in their kaleidoscopic nuance. Her powerful and radiant oil-on-wood panels, often themselves cleaved into different forms, speak of her influences from the gamelan music and geometric image-making of South and Southeast Asia, where she has traveled frequently, to her interest in early modernist abstraction, in particular the work of Hilma af Klint. Lerner has created her own complex personal vocabulary with her approach to form and color. These influences contribute to her complex approach to surface, shape and hue. Her exhibition of paintings conceived for this show on the third floor of Sprüth Magers, London, will be the first time her work has been exhibited in the city, and outside of the US in ten years.