OCHI is pleased to present Blue, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by artist Claudia Parducci. This is Parducci’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view at OCHI, located at 3301 W Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, from February 18 through March 29, 2025. A Reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, March 1^st from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST.

The exhibition coincides with the opening of Frieze Los Angeles. On Saturday, February 22^nd, the gallery is hosting a private tour of the artist’s studio and the Estate of Peter Alexander. Space is limited. For additional information and to reserve a spot, email hello@ochigallery.com.

Blue features monochrome pastel canvases that mark Claudia Parducci’s return to the studio after a rupture in her practice following the loss of her husband, the artist Peter Alexander. In the immediate aftermath of this profound loss, Parducci was a changed person, unsure how to move forward in her 30-year practice as an artist. Eventually she began again, limiting her materials to those left behind by her late partner: a handful of canvases, some sawhorses, and a box of blue soft pastels. What emerged was a series of works that embody both chance and impermanence, echoing the way the material world of organisms does not entirely disappear, but evolves over time. By virtue of borrowing another artist’s supplies, the blue pastel series marks a visual departure from Parducci’s previous work while extending her long exploration of the remarkable human capacity for regeneration.

What began as a creative expression of grief became a rigorous exploration of impermanence and chance. Parducci set strict boundaries: using only raw pigment, canvases the same size her late partner preferred, and the rule that she would not manipulate the receiving object which hung or leaned below the primary canvas. She rubbed the primary object with blue pastel, causing excess pigment dust to fall on the object below. The act of creating the primary object resulted in the forming of another. She embraced the lack of control, building chance into the process. These works are primarily a documentation of the process of their making, a coupling of two things happening simultaneously. In an unabashed expression of devotion and transference, Blue is an homage to love and loss, chance and transformation, and the dizzying elasticity of time.

Parducci received both her BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, CA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Museo Archeologica Arte Contemporanea in Cisternino, Italy; Estudio Las Nieves in Bogota, Colombia; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tijuana, Mexico; University City Art Museum in Guangzhou, China; Thomas Zander in Cologne, Germany; Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA; Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA; Bakersfield Museum of Art in Bakersfield, CA; California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks in Thousand Oaks, CA; Palos Verdes Art Center in Palos Verdes, CA; Craig Krull Gallery and Sloan Projects in Santa Monica, CA; and Nye+Brown and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA. Parducci’s work has been featured and reviewed in publications including Los Angeles Times, Artillery Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Whitehot Magazine, and LA Weekly. Parducci lives and works in upstate New York and is represented by OCHI.