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Through the Thick and Thin

Stan Kaplan

May 29th - July 2nd 2026
Opening Reception: Friday May 29th

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 72 x 54 inches, 182.9 x 137.2 cm

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 62 x 75 inches, 157.5 x 190.5 cm

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 58 x 50 inches, 127 x 147.3 cm

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 50 x 58 inches, 127 x 147.3 cm

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 26 x 22 inches, 66 x 55.9 cm

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 75 x 62 inches, 190.5 x 157.5 cm

Stan Kaplan
Untitled, 2026, Oil on linen, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm

La Loma is pleased to present "Through the Thick and Thin," new paintings by Los Angeles-based Stan Kaplan. Building on the artist’s established preoccupations with floral motifs, vivid color, and paint handling, the works expand into landscape, all-over composition, and abstraction.

Made over the past two years, the paintings use intuition and spontaneity to build up layered surfaces in which movement and visual intensity are achieved through an expanded vocabulary of gesture and mark. While continuous with Kaplan's earlier large-scale bouquet paintings in their expressive tactility and dynamic space, these works feel harder-won: provisional completions arrived at through grace, accident, and struggle. The title functions on two levels: as a literal description of the material experience the paintings offer, and as a metaphor for navigating the unexpected, both in the painting process and in the chaos of the present moment.