Night Gallery is pleased to present BIG MOOD, an exhibition of new paintings by Andrea Marie Breiling. This will be her second solo show at Night Gallery, following 2019's Have You Loved Me for the Last Time (Laid Bare). The exhibition will be on view at the gallery from September 8 - 26, 2020 by appointment only, and will remain as an online viewing room until October 24, 2020. 

A spirit of reverent defiance animates Breiling’s practice, engaging the history of abstract painting at the same time that she resists a singular mode of inquiry. In each monumental painting the viewer witnesses her conducting experiments in relation to her own physicality, and while earlier paintings took cues from Action Painting, the canvases in BIG MOOD are more akin to the Color Field movement. These forms are primarily constructed using spray paint, which she was first drawn to as a brush-free approach to painting and which has allowed her to render large forms while maintaining the frenetic energy for which she is known. Using spray paint over Flashe, acrylic, and enamel she builds multiple cross-hatched layers that coax new and deeper palettes and textures from these materials. 

Andrea Marie Breiling (b. Phoenix, AZ) lives and works in Los Angeles. Breiling has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX; Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA. She has also participated in multiple group exhibitions, including Achenbach Hagemeier, Berlin, Germany; Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; ltd Los Angeles; Skibum Macarthur, Los Angeles, CA; Tin Flats, Los Angeles, CA; and 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA, among others. Have you loved me for the last time (Laid Bare) was Breiling’s first solo exhibition at Night Gallery after appearing in the group exhibition True Lies in July 2017.
 

Installation photographs by Marten Elder.