Dorothea Tanning “Doesn’t The Paint Say It All?”

Dorothea Tanning “Doesn’t The Paint Say It All?”

Kasmin (509 W 27th St.)

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Dorothea Tanning: Doesn’t the Paint Say It All? brings together canvases and works on paper drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre to present the most comprehensive solo presentation of her work for US audiences in decades.

The exhibition will chart Tanning’s journey from her surrealist dreamscapes of the 1940s through the highly fragmented, prismatic, and layered imagery that emerged in her work in the 1950s and 60s, when her paintings delight in the refraction of both light and of reality. Examining Tanning’s return toward figuration, the exhibition will include later works that are equally enigmatic and disquieting. Pour Gustave l’adoré (1974), for instance, speaks to Tanning’s darker impulses with its split composition consisting of a dense black-brown that covers the upper half of the picture plane and an incandescent green-blue limb with an aquatic tail, emerging sinisterly from beneath.

This is the first exhibition at Kasmin dedicated to the work of Tanning, whose pioneering explorations into the space between abstraction and figuration continue to influence vital painters today.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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