David Richard Gallery is pleased to present New York artist Li Trincere and her newest body of work, Painting Zero, in her third solo exhibition with the Gallery. This new series of hard-edge paintings was created during the Covid pandemic and confinement to her studio in 2021 with the help of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

This presentation includes ten paintings, each acrylic on canvas in a square format and measuring 54 x 54 inches. This is a departure for Trincere whose paintings historically have been shaped canvases and rarely of uniform size. Her titles are usually descriptive, generally limited to the colors and shapes of the individual paintings. However, this new series differs in that the titles are not descriptive but convey an attitude, almost a return to an 80s punk sensibility that is edgy, gritty and a little tough and unapologetic. The titles include: Blood and Guts, War, Fuk, Thor, Holy Terror and You Woke Up The Beast—detect a theme here? Yet, they are not nostalgic nor representative of any particular style or artwork from the 1980s. These paintings are fresh, bold and have the same character and vibe as the artist’s most recent series, but in a square format.

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