Perception, paradoxes, enigmas, and quirks.

• Position: What's New? - "Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing, 1950-2006" exhibition in Los Angeles, California - Brief article

"My work concerns the paradoxes of visual perception, the enigmas and quirks, and how it all forms the basis for our realities. The impact, excitement, and energies created by incongruity, juxtaposition, and opposites all interest me."

"Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing, 1950-2006"--on view through Nov. 26 at the Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.--comprises more than 30 works of the artist's practice in drawing, encompassing her diverse styles: from the more traditional abstract works of the late 1950s, to her closely rendered signature shield forms of the 1960s and 1970s, to a synthesis of six decades in the later works.

A renegade in every sense of the word, Remington (1930-2010), a relative of American painter Frederic Remington (1861-1909), earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955 from the California School of Fine Arts (later renamed the San Francisco Art Institute), where she studied with Clyfford Still, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff, among others.

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