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HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce Under the Sun, painter Elizabeth Hazan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Elizabeth Hazan’s hieroglyphic landscape paintings maintain an ambiguous relation to real territories. Large passages of oil in muted oranges, glowing pinks, and cherry red become skies, fields, and rivers, each discrete shape a phrase that links together to depict the world unfurled, top-down, like a roll of seamless photo paper. The sinuous lines that delineate these forms are, as Paul Celan wrote in his 1958 poem “Engfürung” (The Straightening), “driven into the terrain with …