Ligature Press

A new artist’s book by Liza Lacroix on the occasion of her first institutional exhibition. Co-published by Ligature Press and Neue Galerie Gladbeck, One. Two. Three. [...] Twenty-Six., gathers new paintings from the exhibition with a selection of eighteen more from the last three years, all reproduced here for the first time.

Lacroix regards them anew as images from the vantage point of two allusive texts: one cobbled together from questions about the HBO series Six Feet Under (2001-5), the other an unfiltered memoir of the artist's own bruising past. Printed on diaphanous paper, Lacroix’s umber tones seem both on and below the surface, as if from burst capillaries—hand prints left on skin from the too-tight grip that refuses to let go. Each painting is dissected with multiple, aggressive crops, a thrum of repetition that becomes a kind of vivisection: the half-forensic and half-obsessional gaze that we reserve for the devotional and the departed.