In a post-truth world, there is a refuge of truth that can be found in painting. This exhibition unfolds as much as it, almost nostalgically, envelops us in the simple yet mysterious truth at the core of Beth Letain’s work and studio practice.
You will not find any tricks, any spin, or any window dressing here. Instead we encounter bold beauty and perfect imperfection spanning years of work rooted in Letain’s own strict but incomprehensible geometric and color logic.
Although impossible to understand, the sublime satisfaction she finds in achieving her unique perfection bathes us in a gentle peace, disrupted only by the chaos that we find ourselves in the present.
Letain’s paintings are precious gifts of honesty and peace.
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this above all
to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day.
– Nick Koenigsknecht