Research Catalog

Title

Elliott Puckette / contributions by David Anfam, Stephanie Cristello and Maya Lin ; studio photography by François Halard.

Author

Puckette, Elliott, 1967-

Publication

New York, NY : Kasmin, [2023]

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Additional Authors

• Anfam, David
• Cristello, Stephanie, 1991-
• Lin, Maya, 1959-
• Halard, François
• Paul Kasmin Gallery, host institution.

Description

193 pages : illustrations; 34 cm

Subject

Puckette, Elliott, 1967- > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Kasmin, New York, from January 13-February 26, 2022
• "Kasmin is delighted to present a major exhibition of work by Elliott Puckette (b. 1967) to go on view at 509 West 27th Street from January 13-February 26, 2022. The exhibition will debut the artist's sculpture, alongside several new large-scale paintings and a suite of works on paper. Together, they represent a significant development in Puckette's dedicated explorations into the nature and limits of linear abstraction. This is the artist's ninth solo exhibition at Kasmin, preceding the publication of her first major monograph in Spring 2022. The elegant simplicity of Puckette's line belies its complex process. With brisk, confident gestures, the artist etches pirouetting inlets into board washed with layers of gesso and ink. The colored washes create distinctive atmospheres in each work--brooding storm clouds of gray and tumultuous seas of dark purple. Puckette uses a razor blade to draw her arcs, carving out pathways instinctively with exquisite light touch. Later, she returns to deepen the furrows with cross-hatching--a labor-intensive process that inherently slows the line, subtracting it from the painting and delineating its negative space. In recent bodies of work, Puckette has developed her use of line by first rendering it three dimensions, making ephemeral sculptures out of wire. By translating the form of the maquette, Puckette flattens, and thus further abstracts, the line. As such, the works capture a silhouette of their three-dimensional references, a fleeting snapshot of perspective. For the first time, this exhibition presents both large and medium scale sculpture by the artist, inviting further immersion into the language, form, and logic of the line. Cast in bronze, the largest of these works spans nearly 16 feet in length." -- Gallery website

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 191)

Call Number

N6537.P84

ISBN

• 9781947232990
• 1947232991

OCLC

• 1380359000
• on1380359000
• SCSB-14560780

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