The Landing is pleased to present Wild Child, the debut Los Angeles solo exhibition for New York-based artist Amanda Valdez. Wild Child will be on view May 4th through June 15th, 2019. Amanda Valdez creates abstract works on canvas that incorporate embroidery, quilting, oil stick on mounted paper, and hand-dyed and commercially sourced fabrics. Her engineered surfaces have a vivid sense of tactility – they incorporate fabric embedded into the canvas structure, raised paint on paper, and silky embroidery floss. The interplay between varying materials and processes, between hard-edged and soft forms, and between art histories contributes to the luminous energy contained in these abstract works. There are two major traditions being referenced: the painting tradition, which has historically been male-dominated, and the fiber art tradition, which has been primarily female. A tension between these two traditions is felt in Valdez’s highly personal yet historically-rooted practice