Please join us for a closing reception on Friday, July 11, featuring a live performance from Connors and David Grubbs.

“Evening Air,” Loren Connors’s third solo exhibition with Blank Forms, presents a suite of five large-scale works that push the artist’s exploration of atmosphere and landscape toward pure  abstraction. These works shift as the light changes, revealing subtle internal geographies: reflective sheens of smoothed acrylic, stray brush hairs, and embedded lint—residues of Connors’s physical process. The paintings’ roughly assembled frames, variously nailed and stapled together, heighten the sense of immediacy and tactility. Traces of Connors’s earlier influences—Rothko’s “Dark Paintings,” “the feeling of horizon” gathered at the canvas’s center—do linger here, but the paintings in “Evening Air” drift focus, homing in on the materiality of paint and color, exploring opacity, density, and nearly imperceptible gradation. Layers of saturated and unnatural red, green, and blue accumulate so densely that they become asymptotically black, creating surfaces that absorb and withhold.