" Each painting is a renewed attempt to get closer to the truth, an existential quest to find tracks that run parallel to the motions of the cosmos." Elisabeth Lalouschek

In this, her sixth solo exhibition at the October Gallery, Elisabeth Lalouschek, Artistic Director of the October Gallery, will present a series of her most recent canvases. This new work - a precise poetics of colour and form - has liberated itself from all pre-conceived notions of painting to become a direct translation of the artist’s visions onto the canvas - without any preliminary sketches. The works show the resolution of particular questions directly on the canvas itself, being spontaneous, raw and utterly compelling.

Having absorbed, in her professional career as a curator, broad influences from contemporary artistic currents from around the world, Lalouschek’s bold and highly coloured canvases confront major themes of transformation and change in surprisingly novel ways. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1983, Viennese-born painter and theatre designer Elisabeth Lalouschek, the recipient of various awards (George Rowney Bicentennial Special Award etc.) and major scholarships (British Council, Austrian State Scholarship etc.), has exhibited in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and Mexico, and has been an active participant in the October Gallery’s pioneering creation and promotion of the art of , the Transvangarde, the trans-cultural avant-garde.

“…she wields a brush like Scaramouche wielded a sword, with deadly aim and incredible flexibility…”
The News, Mexico City.

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