Hilay Pecis

Cirrus Gallery and Cirrus Editions Ltd. is pleased to announce a new series of silkscreen prints by Hilary Pecis.

Hilary Pecis (b. 1979, Fullerton, California) makes paintings and drawings rich with color, geometric patterning, and bold linework. Everyday objects, the California landscape, and culinary detournements, are frequent subject matter. These carefully orchestrated interiors and smartly rendered exteriors create a body of work that archives everyday objects and locations.

For Morro Bay coastline and Cheese shop, Pecis has chosen scenes she came across while running. Pecis captures the scene with a smartphone camera. Using this encounter as a jumping off point to further flatten the image, Pecis renders the scene with an athletic simplicity, using pattern in combination with surprising color motifs. For Kitchen Lilies, Pecis depicts a still life in her kitchen nook. “This image is in the vein of many other paintings that I have made from my vantage point at the table. It is a place where I often sit and spend time looking longer at whatever happens to be there. It’s familiar and also always changing.” Pecis describes.

Pecis’ bold approach to color places her work in dialogue with art historical movements like Fauvism. Her graphic sense speaks to more recent tendencies like the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s, while her slice-of-life approach and visual immediacy roots her firmly in our contemporary moment. For these prints, Pecis has sharpened her painting practice, focusing on iconic compositions. Working alongside our master printer Travis Lober and printing apprentice Dan Bayles, Pecis used screen printing to achieve bold, vibratory imagery.

Hilary Pecis has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles: TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China; Rockefeller Center, New York; Timothy Taylor, London; Spurs Gallery, Beijing; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; and Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida.Recent group exhibitions include The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; 13 Women: Variation I, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California; Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; FEEDBACK, The School at Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York; L.A.: Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo; High Voltage, The Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, Israel; and (Nothing but) Flowers, Karma, New York.

Recent group exhibitions include The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2023); 13 Women: Variation I, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California (2022–2023); Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2021); FEEDBACK, The School at Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York (2021); L.A.: Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo (2020); High Voltage, The Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, Israel (2020); and (Nothing but) Flowers, Karma, New York (2020). Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; and Aïshti Foundation, Beirut. Pecis lives and works in Los Angeles.

Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; and Aïshti Foundation, Beirut.

Pecis lives and works in Los Angeles.