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Roberta Gentry's "Blood Orange" Exhibition Explores Symmetry and Biomorphic Forms

Los Angeles-based artist Roberta Gentry's solo exhibition, "Blood Orange," features vivid, balanced abstract compositions that draw inspiration from the 16th-century "La Dame à la licorne" tapestries.

Gentry's work explores the relationship between the constructed and the natural, using symmetry and restricted palettes to create rhythmic pieces on an underlying grid. She employs multiple layers of thinned acrylic to build subtle gradients across the canvas.

The exhibition references the tapestries' bold colors and depicted elements, such as velvet gowns, pipe organs, and orange trees, which become central forms in Gentry's paintings.

While the tapestries are often interpreted as directly referencing the five senses, Gentry's work also aligns with a broader view that they speak to how we gather knowledge and interpret lived experiences, particularly through emotion.

This is reflected in her paintings through a tension between the order of the grid and the unpredictable nature of organic growth, mirroring how we construct mythologies to explain our world.

"Blood Orange" is on view at Track 16 in East Hollywood through October 24.

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