It feels like a lifetime ago that we previewed Sophie Treppendahl’s new exhibition, The Nearness of You, on our Instagram; a lifetime in the fact that the fires that ravaged Los Angeles since has illuminated these works in new ways and also captured a narrative that is both intentional and environmentally unintentional. These are works of the intimacy of home, of the studio, universally familiar places that maybe aren’t our own but a fantasy of something slower. Painted during her pregnancy, the New Orleans-based painter brought the works to Los Angeles and Philip Martin Gallery with the universal feeling of life reborn and now have come to represent the world we will try and get back.
