Elliott Puckette: New Paintings
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
September 5 - October 12, 2002
Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by ELLIOTT PUCKETTE. It is her first major New York exhibition in three years.
Elliott Puckette's work strikes a delicate poetic balance between painting and drawing. Her elegant compositions are conceived by an unique technique and a labor intensive process. Elliott Puckette first coats a wooden panel with many layers of gesso then applies a monotone wash of colored ink. She intimates an expansive space by dripping and pouring veils of color. She then articulates delicate curved lines that sweep over the surface. They are not painted but are deliberately subtracted by etching through the ink with a razor blade leaving scratch marks. These continuous intricate and interlacing lines often evoke musical notations or a calligraphic visual language. This most recent body of work is inspired by the billowing, celestial forms of Constable’s cloud studies and the baroque lines of Tiepolo's drawings.
Elliott Puckette lives and works in New York City.
A fully illustrated catalogue
with essay by Daisy Garnett
accompanies the exhibition.
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY
293 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10001
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