With a sold-out show in London and works on view in New York and L.A., Pecis is the it post-lockdown painter.
When I look at the bright, busy paintings of 41-year-old American artist Hilary Pecis, I think: if Matisse had an Instagram account, his feed would probably look a lot like this.
With an influencer's eye for framing and a fauvist's love of color, Pecis memorializes the beauty in the banal-a yawning bouquet of flowers in a mason jar, a cup of coffee atop a freshly completed crossword puzzle. Many artists make work about quotidian pleasures, but few revel in them like she does.
