Anne Truitt “Threshold: Work from the 1970s”

Matthew Marks Gallery 522 W 22nd St.

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Matthew Marks presents Anne Truitt: Threshold. The exhibition includes twenty sculptures, paintings, and drawings from the 1970s, many of which are exhibited for the first time in nearly forty years.

Eight wood sculptures covered in bands of rich color are on view. In addition to Truitt’s signature totemic columns, three horizontal works are included. Truitt’s sculptures were created with a labor-intensive process involving many layers of hand-applied paint, each sanded to a fine finish. Anne M. Wagner writes of the exhibition’s five white-on-white paintings from the Arundel series, “the elusive delicacy of their execution somehow creates the impression of a spatial expanse.” In the other paintings, Truitt used wide brushes to sweep paint over large areas, sometimes in one long unbroken stroke. Drawing was a daily ritual for Truitt, and a number of works on paper are being exhibited for the first time.

A fully illustrated hardcover book, with an essay by Anne M. Wagner and writings by Anne Truitt, will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Anne Truitt (1921–2004) was born in Baltimore and lived the majority of her life in Washington, D.C. Her first one-person exhibition was at the André Emmerich Gallery, New York, in February 1963. Her work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1973); the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1974); and the Baltimore Museum of Art (1974 & 1992). In 2009 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., organized a comprehensive survey of her work. The three volumes of the artist’s journals, Daybook (1982), Turn (1987), and Prospect (1996), will be published together for the first time as an e-book in October, alongside a new print edition of Daybook. Audiobooks of all three journals will also be published in October.

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Schedule

from September 13, 2013 to October 26, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-09-12 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Anne Truitt

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