Noelia Towers: An Account of Preceding Events

de boer (Los Angeles) is pleased to present Account of Preceding Events, an exhibition by Noelia Towers, her third solo with the gallery. In this exhibition, Towers captures life’s in-between moments—scenes that resist clear resolution. Her paintings function like the myth of the conch shell—where we think we hear the ocean, though it is only an echo of our own perception.

Towers embraces the intersection of personal memory and shared experience and distills fleeting moments, inviting viewers into quiet yet charged spaces where the ordinary hums with the weight of nostalgia, vulnerability, and emotion. As Andrew Wyeth once said, "I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." Like Wyeth’s winter landscapes, Towers’ work holds a quiet tension, hinting at something just beyond reach.

In one painting, a delicate butterfly perches on the edge of a partially eaten peach, while a woman’s lips hover close, caught between stillness and motion, drawing the viewer into a meditation on fragility and fleeting encounters. Another painting presents a skinned knee, freshly wounded against the backdrop of a bicycle ride—capturing the rawness of experience, where exhilaration and pain coexist in a single breath.