CMay Gallery is pleased to present Mitosis, a solo exhibition featuring new work by the Los Angeles-based artist, Felicity Nove. Poured and splashed, guided, pushed, and observed, Felicity Nove’s paintings capture gestural anomalies that stretch moments into eternity.

Taking on a microscopic effect, Felicity Nove’s new series reverses and narrows the outward trajectory of her earlier works, which resemble the unfurling of galactic bodies. While these new paintings echo the primal intimacy of sacred rituals and the divine, Nove's predominantly red, large-scale compositions are rooted in the artist's interest in biological and chemical processes, particularly the phases of cell division that occur in Mitosis. Her paintings burst and bubble, placid lakes smooth over existing formations, or crags and crevices are left high and dry, leaving us to ponder what sort of natural and unnatural mechanisms have led to their creation and how we might be affected as well.

Nove’s personal experiences during and since the 2016 election led her to dig into the connection between the body and politics, observing the eruption of political tension and its effect on the human condition. Finding parallels to the process of mitosis, she mulled over how our public lives alter even our most intimate processes and in what ways these minute evolutions are reflected back into the world.