Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Compositions, an exhibition of still life paintings by Frances Campani. This is her first exhibition with the gallery.

Frances Campani ‘s minimal paintings reduce the essential elements of still life - bottles, flowers, and fabric draped over a surface - into geometric components. These forms live in a light-filled space created through the careful application of many thin layers of pigment. Muted palettes of cream and taupe play with the transparencies of window and bottle to turn shadows and reflections into abstract elements that create a calming rhythm. In these simple, restrained interiors every element is necessary, and each contributes to the sense of order and balance that permeates Campani’s work.

Campani is an architect as well as a painter and this life-long discipline informs the structured geometry of her compositions in paint. She bases her still lives on careful observation, and as she says her paintings “seek to reveal the essential”