High Noon is pleased to present Bobbie Oliver’s second exhibition with the gallery, By the River. Oliver’s newest paintings cite her environment as a signifier, owing much of the imagery to the time spent outside the city in 2020. The body of work began at the artist’s studio in Rock Valley, NY, which borders the Delaware River and was completed in her loft in TriBeCa, appropriately emulating the journey through the paintings’ shifts in edge quality and heightened amorphous formal sensibility of existing between solid and liquid. The river became emblematic of the year’s creative process— flowing despite all disturbances, staying whole, natural, and it’s own, despite human arbitration— both generating a feeling of how to observe a painting, and anecdotal for the slowly considered and constrained compositions.