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Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Cygnet, an exhibition of paintings and collages by Claire Oswalt—the artist’s first presentation at the gallery.

Claire Oswalt’s work begins as meanderings in watercolor—swaths of earthy reds; pools or veins of rich, watery blues; arroyos of emerald green. She makes stacks of drawings before ripping them up and rearranging the pieces into small rectangular collages, centering them on sheets of foxed paper pulled from books of personal significance. Some of these collages become studies for larger paintings—near-perfect facsimiles made from pieces of canvas …