Theresa Hackett at Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Theresa Hackett: Going Off
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
February 23 - March 31, 2001

Florence Lynch Gallery presents Going Off, an exhibition of recent paintings by Theresa Hackett. 

Theresa Hackett’s new paintings are colorful, obsessive, animated, abstractions of ocean wave, and hybrid landscapes. These paintings are on paper mounted on linen, which is an interesting departure from her earlier works on wood. Working on paper has brought out the drawing and obsessive quality in her works and yet preserves a lightness of materials. Materials are Hackett’s strength; she lets the materials lead her into a painting/non-painting dialogue such as in her use of color. Some color is applied and other is found, materials such as felt, foil sand, and ballpoint pen replace the traditional brush stroke with that of concrete gesture.

This dialectic that Theresa Hackett creates for herself is full of mesmerizing and seductive qualities. She provides us with one part visual meditation and the other of a disconnected cartoon. This bipolar reading gives the viewer a choice of various levels from which to approach the painting and above all, the possibility to share in her visual pleasure.

This is Theresa Hackett’s second one-person exhibition with the gallery. Theresa Hackett’s work has been shown in galleries and museums in Europe and the U.S. Among the venues are Pinacoteca Comunale Villa Soranzo, Outdoor Installation, Varallo Pombia, Italy; kjubh, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; ARCO 2000, Madrid, Spain; Salle D’Exposition Centre St. Charles, University de Paris I, Sorbonne, Paris, France; Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY; The Work Space, New York, among others.

FLORENCE LYNCH GALLERY
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