New Paintings
February 1 - March 2, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Reception: Thursday, January 31, 6-8 pm
LARRY POONS
New Paintings
February 1 – March 2, 2013
Danese and Loretta Howard Gallery are pleased to announce a joint exhibition of new paintings by Larry Poons to be held at 525-531 West 26th Street.* In this recent body of work, Poons embraces the chromatic worlds of music and color, creating along the way a visual and emotional environment ripe with gesture, raw energy and improvisation. Activating the canvas with opulent color, varying saturation and nuanced underpainting, a relentless Dionysian surge of color against color is tempered by a deeply considered meditation on the nature of art and being. Traces of remembered landscapes, paeans to Cézanne, the intuited color of Matisse and Bonnard are evoked in the work of Larry Poons, and ensure a constant shift in the experience of the painting as it oscillates back and forth from the local to the universal.
Intensely individual and intimate, each assertive brushstroke becomes a part of the whole – the short and frenetic, the calm bold edge of confidence – an arena of action tamed by the sublime. Robert Pincus-Witten observes in his text for the accompanying catalogue that…Poons instrumentalizes chance (the very hallmark of Abstract Expressionist painting…).
Larry Poons was born in 1937 and grew up in New York. In 1955, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music, and two years later transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was given his first one-man exhibition in 1963 at Richard Bellamy’s famed Green Gallery, and in 1965 his work was included in MoMA’s celebrated exhibition, The Responsive Eye. In 1969, Poons was the youngest artist featured in curator Henry Geldzahler’s landmark survey, New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970. In 1981 the MFA Boston organized an exhibition of his paintings from the 1970s. The work of Larry Poons is included in major museum and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. He currently lives and works in New York.
An illustrated catalogue with an essay by Robert Pincus-Witten accompanies the exhibition. It can be viewed online through the gallery website or purchased at www.blurb.com. For further information please contact: Carol Corey (carol@danese.com) or Howard Hurst (howard@lorettahoward.com).
*Please note interim address for Danese: 525-531 West 26 Street, 4th fl, New York, NY 10001
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