Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Exhibition
David Krut Projects
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David Krut Projects is pleased to announce the first American solo exhibition of works by Scottish modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004).
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a key member of the St. Ives School, and leading innovator of British modernist abstract painting and printmaking, an artist whose contributions have long been recognized in Britain as historically undervalued. The exhibition presents work from the later stages of her career, when use of bold, passionate color was increasingly employed to convey what the artist's biographer calls her "awareness of inner, shaping principles and formative forces, rather than merely...external appearances" in nature. David Krut Projects presents a selection of paintings, drawings, and prints by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
Barns-Graham's later works result from a process she called "laying bare," in which she stripped away extraneous, visible elements from natural subjects--beaches, a Swiss glacier, the wind--in search of their hidden interior, even spiritual, power. In a sense her works are paradoxical, combining vivid, turbulent colors and lines to convey this power, yet simultaneously revealing the serenity of mind that was essential to her creative process.
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Schedule
from March 08, 2008 to April 12, 2008
Reception: March 27, 6-8pm