



Consequential Landscape #1
2020
Consequential Landscape #1 unfolds across nearly two meters of paper as a dense, luminous accumulation of mark-making, with Mimi Lauter layering oil pastel and soft pastel into fields of color that pulse between tenderness and urgency. Executed in 2020, the work belongs to a body of practice in which landscape functions less as a depiction of place than as an emotional and psychic register, with each stroke building atmospheric pressure and chromatic depth simultaneously. The scale demands full bodily attention, drawing the viewer into what reads as both an intimate diary of perception and a sweeping environmental elegy. Lauter works with pastel in ways that resist the medium's conventional associations with delicacy, pushing pigment into raw, saturated territories that carry a physical weight unusual for works on paper. The result is a surface that rewards close inspection, where individual gestures retain their integrity even as they dissolve into the broader chromatic whole. Consequential Landscape #1 sits comfortably within a growing critical conversation around materiality and mark-making, and Lauter's representation by Mendes Wood DM speaks to the sustained institutional interest her practice has attracted. Presented in good condition and signed by the artist, this work represents a significant opportunity to acquire a large-format piece from a meaningful moment in Lauter's development. Works of this scale and ambition from her landscape series are increasingly sought after by collectors focused on contemporary drawing and works on paper at the intersection of abstraction and felt experience.
- Medium
- Oil pastel, soft pastel on paper
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Mendes Wood DM, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Mendes Wood DMView on map
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