Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, presents “The Nearness of You,” a solo exhibition of new works by New Orleans-based painter Sophie Treppendahl. Like a scene by Édouard Vuillard, Sophie Treppendahl’s paintings present familiar places to which we have never been. Her interiors are warm and inviting. Comfortable and full of reading, art-making, eating, cooking – life. The placement of Treppendahl’s objects is particular. She composes “in the flatbed,” meaning that she builds her composition with an eye not only to perspectival space, but also to the flatness of the picture plane, with shape, line and color pushing and pulling, moving the viewer’s eye. In Treppendahl’s work, the…