The Pit is pleased to present “Parallel Land,” a solo exhibition of new works by Montreal-born, Brooklyn-based painter Annie Hémond Hotte, her first with the gallery. The show will be on view from May 3 to June 7, 2025. The artist will attend the opening reception on Saturday, May 3, from 5 - 7 pm. 

“The labyrinth is the perfect oxymoron, which opposes the chaos of its tortuous and dark corridors to the geometric precision of its external forms,” wrote literary scholar Gaetano Cipolla. This sentiment can be applied to Annie Hémond Hotte’s meticulously rendered labyrinthine paintings. From a distance, the warp and weft of her innumerable marks coalesce in decorative textile patterns, such as herringbone, chevrons, vermicular lines, and tracery, as well as allegorical forms like verdant trees, sinuous women, mythical animals, and stone masonry. Not unlike the elaborate tapestries of the Middle Ages, the individual threads—or lines—are subsumed by the millefleurs or the greater scenes.