Polly Kraft “Southfork”
Fischbach Gallery
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A long-time resident of Washington, D.C, where she studied painting at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art, Kraft has spent summers in the Hamptons for several decades painting immediate, virtuoso landscapes and still lifes in an unpretentious Realist style.
Kraft calls herself an ‘Intimist,’ painting directly from life, without the use of photographs. She taps straight into nature’s own brand of minimalism. Her still lifes bring to mind landscape paintings from their topography. A number of still lifes to be included exhibit an economy of description and a fresh, plein air sensibility, while capturing precisely the sense of place in which they were created. In The New York Times, April 4, 1986, John Russell wrote, Kraft is a “specialist in domestic disorder that we reprobate in our own lives but have come to recognize as excellent material for painting.”
In Southfork, Kraft’s paintings convey an understanding of her environment that comes with patient observation. Similar subject matters are differentiated by a subtle shift in light, or perspective. In 2003, Jane Livingston wrote, “Kraft’s still life oil paintings embody the Artist’s fundamental interest in investigation both painterly space, and the intrinsic properties of those things she chooses with which to adumbrate this illusionistic space. These works are essentially meditations on the nature of the organisms they depict, richly evoking the texture and shape and color that belong only to these things.”
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from November 20, 2014 to December 20, 2014