COURTING CHAOS
new paintings, multiple-exposure photo-based paintings, and kôan boxes
17 January ~ 28 February 2026
949.723.3406 or jdenholm@scapesite.com
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
—Albert Einstein
PAINTINGS
Ponderosa Forest 1, 2024-25 (LFP202504)
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsol on canvas
79 x 70 inches unframed
$32,000.
Red Tree 1, 2024-26 (LFP202601)
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsol on canvas
79 x 70 inches unframed
$32,000.
Red-Orange Ground I, 2010-25 (LFP202604)
oil and alkyd resin on birchwood panel
18 x 9 inches unframed
26.25 x 18.5 framed
$5,750.
Red Ground 2, 2015-26 (LFP202603)
oil and alkyd resin on birchwood panel
20 x 16 x 2 inches unframed
$6,500.
Red Ground 1, 2020-26 (LFP202602)
oil and alkyd resin on canvas on birchwood panel
24 x 14 x 2 inches unframed
$6,750.
MULTIPLE-EXPOSURE PHOTO-BASED PAINTINGS
Fusion: LA Palms 1B. 2024-25 (LFFP202516)
Edition 2 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm | Framed: 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm
$10,500. framed
Fusion: Tree 11B. 2023-24 (LFFP202417)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper mounted on birch panel
48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm
$10,500. framed
Fusion: Elysian Park 2B. 2024-25 (LFFP202517)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 36 x 36 inches / 91.5 x 91.5 cm | Framed: 40 x 40 inches / 101.6 x 101.6 cm
$6,750. framed
Fusion: Nambé Cottonwood 2B, 2024-25 (LFFP202510)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Pecos Ponderosa and Sunflowers 3A, 2024-25 (LFFP202514)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Pecos Ponderosa and Sunflowers 2C, 2024-25 (LFFP202513)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: New York City Central Park 2C, 2024-25 (LFFP202511)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Santa Fe Forest 4B, 2024-25 (LFFP202515)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: LA Palms 1B, 2024-25 (LFFP202506)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: LASHP Tree 2B, 2024-25 (LFFP202508)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: LASHP Tree 1B, 2024-25 (LFFP202507)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Pecos Ponderosas and Sunflowers 2B, 2024-25 (LFFP202512)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Elysian Park 2B, 2024-25 (LFFP202501)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Flagstaff Ponderosas 2D, 2024-25 (LFFP202503)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Flagstaff Ponderosas 1D, 2024-25 (LFFP202502)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Flagstaff Ponderosas 3A, 2024-25 (LFFP202504)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Nambé Cottonwood 1B, 2024-25 (LFFP202509)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
Fusion: Flagstaff Ponderosas 5B, 2024-25 (LFFP202505)
Edition 1 of 3
oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsolm on multiple-exposure archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper
Image/Paper: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm | Framed: 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
$3,000. framed
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
—Paul Cezanne
KÔAN BOXES
Kôan Box Trace: Thalo Blue-Green/Ultramarine Blue, 2020-25 (LFKB202503)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 12kt white gold on wood box w/ embedded items
13 x 11 x 2 inches / 33 x 28 x 5 cm
$5,200.
Kôan Box Cairn: Ultramarine Blue/Violet/Blue-Green, 2020-25 (LFKB202507)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 12kt white gold on wood box w/ embedded items
13 x 11 x 2 inches / 33 x 28 x 5 cm
$5,200.
Kôan Box Trace: Permanent Green/Sap Green/Green, 2020-25 (LFKB202502)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 21kt moon gold on wood box w/ embedded items
13 x 11 x 2 inches / 33 x 28 x 5 cm
$5,200.
Kôan Box Trace: Yellow-Gree/Green, 2020-25 (LFKB202506)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 21kt moon gold on wood box w/ embedded items
13 x 11 x 2 inches / 33 x 28 x 5 cm
$5,200.
Kôan Box Cairn: Lavender/Blue-Green/Pink, 2020-25 (LFKB202508)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 12kt white gold on wood box w/ embedded items
13 x 11 x 2 inches / 33 x 28 x 5 cm
$5,200.
Kôan Box Ivory/Yellow/Red-Violet, 2024-26 (LFKB202601)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 21kt moon gold on wood cigar box w/ embedded items
10.5 x 8.25 x 2 inches / 26.6 x 21 x 5 cm
$4,200.
Kôan Box Ivory/Yellow-Orange/Violet, 2024-25 (LFKB202504)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 21kt moon gold on wood cigar box w/ embedded items
10.5 x 8.25 x 2 inches / 26.6 x 21 x 5 cm
$4,200.
Kôan Box Green/Yellow-Green, 2024-25 (LFKB202505)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 21kt moon gold on wood cigar box w/ embedded items
10.5 x 8.25 x 2 inches / 26.6 x 21 x 5 cm
$4,200.
Kôan Box Cairn: Pale Green/Pale Yellow/Orange, 2018-26 (LFKB202602)
oil and alkyd resin on wood cigar box w/ embedded items
9 x 6.75 x 2 inches / 23 x 17 x 5 cm
$3,500.
Kôan Box Blue-Green/Permanent-Green/Ultramarine, 2022-24 (LFKB202408)
oil, alkyd resin, wax & 12kt white gold on wood cigar box w/ embedded items
10.5 x 8.25 x 2 inches / 26.6 x 21 x 5 cm
$4,200.
“COURTING CHAOS”
COURTING CHAOS
These paintingsand multiple-exposure photographs address chaos and complexity theories, specifically the fragile equilibrium existing between order and disorder which shapes and guides our lives as part of the natural world.
Chaos appears everywhere in nature. The most minute disruption of a single component within a system will affect its evolution, rendering that system and its complex networks unpredictable. Correspondingly, one gesture, mark, a passage of color, a shape, or line can alter the architecture and structure of a painting—and when multiple-exposure images are captured and layered within a camera, they record uniquely shifting moments of light, space, and time with completely random results.
My practice is intuitive, intentionally fluid, innately unpredictable, and consistently courts chaos. Infinite choices within the active elements of a picture create chain reactions which continue to transform endlessly until some form of resolution or integrity is achieved. Identically, strategic options persist in our lives as a result of designed or random circumstances. One decision, one action, or statement, a longing, desire, turn, change of mind, blink, or glance can transform what remains of our time, our relationships, or how we maneuver through and view the world.
There is a precarious balance at work in life and in making art, where systems are chaotic enough to disclose invention through their disorder, yet maintain sufficient structure not to splinter, nor lose identity. When I work, I am courting this chaos—chasing with intention, knowing what I am after, but not knowing what I will find. I delve deeply into the personal in order to find the universal—and there is always the potential to push the image too far into an abyss. Without taking that risk, there is no way to discover the life and breath in a painting or photograph—which then breaths life back into me.
—Lawrence Fodor 2024-25
Please contact Jeannie Denholm at SCAPE with interest, enquiries or questions about any of the work @ jdenholm@scapesite.com or 949.723.3406
Lawrence Fodor @ SCAPE
SCAPE is thrilled to announce an exhibition of new paintings, multiple-exposure photo-based paintings, and Kòan Boxes by Lawrence Fodor. The work is inspired by the artist’s conversation with and research into Chaos and Complexity Theories as they relate to our lives as human beings both personally and in an ever changing ecosystem.
The exhibition addresses how the shift in one element of a system—whether that be in our environment, one’s life, a painting, or a photograph—will result in unpredictable changes to that system. Critically, there is a precarious balance at work on the planet we inhabit, in our lives, and in making art, where systems in flux are chaotic enough to disclose invention through their disorder, yet maintain sufficient structure not to splinter, nor lose identity. Within this chaos, taking risks enables discovery and breathes life into a painting or photograph—which correspondingly breaths life back into the artist and the viewer.
Please contact Jeannie Denholm at SCAPE with interest, enquiries or questions about any of the work @ jdenholm@scapesite.com or 949.723.3406
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Lawrence Fodor’s Courting Chaos installation, January 2026
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Red Tree 1, (detail), 2023-26,, oil, alkyd resin, and Gamsol on canvas, 79 x 70 inches