Elliott Puckette
Past exhibition
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Kasmin is delighted to present a major exhibition of work by Elliott Puckette (b. 1967) at 509 West 27th Street from January 13–February 26, 2022. The exhibition debuts the artist's sculpture alongside several new large-scale paintings and a suite of works on paper. Together, they represent a significant development in Puckette’s dedicated explorations into the nature and limits of linear abstraction. This is the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at Kasmin, preceding the publication of her first major monograph in Spring 2022.
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The elegant simplicity of Puckette’s line belies its complex process. With brisk, confident gestures, the artist etches pirouetting inlets into board washed with layers of gesso and ink. The colored washes create distinctive atmospheres in each work—brooding storm clouds of gray and tumultuous seas of dark purple. Puckette uses a razor blade to draw her arcs, carving out pathways instinctively with exquisite light touch. Later, she returns to deepen the furrows with cross-hatching—a labor-intensive process that inherently slows the line, subtracting it from the painting and delineating its negative space.
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In recent bodies of work, Puckette has developed her use of line by first rendering it three dimensions, making ephemeral sculptures out of wire. By translating the form of the maquette, Puckette flattens, and thus further abstracts, the line. As such, the works capture a silhouette of their three-dimensional references, a fleeting snapshot of perspective.
For the first time, this exhibition presents both large and medium scale sculpture by the artist, inviting further immersion into the language, form, and logic of the line. Cast in bronze, the largest of these works spans nearly 16 feet in length. -
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Puckette’s lines meander their terrain with no premeditated structure, recalling the tenets of Tachisme, the intuitive form of expression favored by European painters in the 1940s and 50s. At the artist’s Brooklyn studio, photocopied works spanning the annals of art history are arranged on one wall; an esoteric puzzle of visual references. While the artist is typically reticent to explicate her works, the blooming skies of John Constable and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo nod to a Romantic or sublime sensibility that is integral to Puckette’s own work. Elsewhere, etchings by Albrecht Dürer allude to the virtues of addition by means of subtraction mirrored in her practice.
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Les Lalanne: Zoophites
From the Collection of Caroline Hamisky Lalanne
Curated by Paul B. Franklin April 4 – May 9, 2024 509 West 27th Street, New YorkAn exhibition in homage to the acclaimed French sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, drawn entirely from the collection of their eldest daughter, Caroline Hamisky Lalanne. Les Lalanne: Zoophites will include major works by these inventive artists who consistently defied art-world conventions. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Les Lalanne’s first joint solo exhibition, which opened in Paris in June 1964, this exhibition borrows the title Zoophites, an obsolete French term for invertebrate animals that resemble plants in their appearance or growth patterns. The exhibition will be accompanied by a newly commissioned text by curator Paul B. Franklin. -
William N. Copley: LXCN CPLY
April 4 – May 11, 2024 297 Tenth Avenue, New YorkWilliam N. Copley: LXCN CPLY will explore the artist’s repertoire of recurring imagery and is the first exhibition to center Copley’s development of his signature visual language. LXCN CPLY draws this thread through five decades of the artist’s career, focusing on a selection of exemplary paintings and drawings from the late 1940s through the 1990s, alongside archival material, documentation and key objects relating to the work on view. The exhibition is co-organized with the William N. Copley Estate, which Kasmin has represented since 2010. -
Sara Anstis: Small Works
April 30 – May 30, 2024 514 West 28th Street, New York
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