Tom Uttech “Early Paintings”
Alexandre Gallery
[Image: Tom Uttech "Feeding the Pitcher Plant" (1971) oil on linen, 64 x 70 in.]
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Alexandre Gallery presents a selection of works by Tom Uttech from the early years of his career. The exhibition is comprised of ten paintings from the 1970s and related charcoal drawings, all based on the artist’s highly imagined forays into the northern woods of Wisconsin and Ontario. Included is work that was selected for the 1975 Whitney Biennial, which brought Uttech his first national attention.
Unlike Uttech’s work of the last twenty years, densely populated with realistic woodland creatures, these early large-scale, luminous paintings are highly imagined, even surreal. A phosphorous glow suffuses these magical landscapes, inhabited by biomorphic creatures and plants. Among them, we see anthropomorphic trees reaching into a technicolor sunset, a half-woman half-animal spirit hovering above an illuminated lake, and a mystical deer-headed creature floating on a pool of water among orange trout.
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from April 25, 2019 to June 14, 2019