Rooted in daily observation and informed by art history, Deborah Lerner sees painting as a generative act. Her sustained attention to surface, colour, and light draws focus to the overlooked urban environment with pavement cracks or city shadows often forming the starting point of a work. These modest details are then transformed through the act of painting, using a variety of techniques such as sanding, taping, wiping, scuffing, and printing. Lerner's use of shape and line remain suggestive of the urban environment but through her material experiments she interweaves values such as subtlety and care. Within each finished work, nuance takes precedence over the brash, quietness is given weight and opposing ideas are held momentarily in balance.