Lee Krasner “Mural Studies”
Paul Kasmin Gallery (297 10th Ave.)
[Image: Lee Krasner "Untitled Mural Study" (1940) gouache on paper, 17 x 22 in. © 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]
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Mural Studies brings together eight of Lee Krasner’s rarely exhibited small-scale, gouache-on-paper studies for an unrealized Works Progress Administration mural painting. Created in 1940 (the same year Krasner produced, in her own words, her “first abstract work”) the gouaches investigate varying configurations of geometric and biomorphic forms alongside linear elements reminiscent of Jean Arp and Joan Miró. Dancing on flat backgrounds and reveling in vivid color, Krasner’s shapes consistently avoid the same designated window and door areas in each composition, suggesting that they were created with a single, now unknown, space in mind.
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from September 13, 2018 to October 27, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00