Lillian Warren "Here is Nowhere"

Lillian Warren's paintings focus on the urban / suburban infrastructure dominating our landscape – roads, traffic lights and communication networks entangled overhead, gas stations and convenient stores. Her work explores the disjointed imagery glimpsed through a car window while looking over the SUV in the next lane. When she pieces together this drive-by landscape she sees a culture obsessed with mobility, predictability and convenience.

She uses fragmented images, repeated across multiple panels to explore an ambiguous shifting space and a hint of narrative. Each work incorporates memories formed by moments half observed and then forgotten, but made familiar through countless repetition. The painting takes shape as a hybrid, not quite any-place, not quite no-place. She wants to create an experience that is intimate because she's been there, but anonymous because it is everywhere.