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Grace Hartigan: Works on Paper
C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Grace Hartigan: Works on Paper, a survey exhibition which spans from the 1950s through the early 2000s. Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) is renowned for her formative participation in the Abstract Expressionist movement. This exhibition will showcase early mixed media collages, as well as gestural and figurative watercolors that build on the associative mark-making of her abstract paintings.
Hartigan began making watercolor collages, which were unique to her practice, in the 1960s and the medium became so important to her that she called it a 鈥渟econd expression鈥� from the 1980s onward. Watercolor was particularly suitable to her at this time because it resembled the manner in which she was using thin, transparent oil glazes in her recent canvases. Some collages act as studies for or mirrors of Hartigan鈥檚 large scale oil works. Articulations Collage (1968) references a series of Anatomy paintings that the artist made in 1968-1969, each which feature Hartigan鈥檚 amalgamation of representational images that would come to define her paintings in the mid 60s and 70s. These watercolor collages combine the abstract elements and lyricism of her early work with her desire to be free to work with any subject material.
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C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Grace Hartigan: Works on Paper, a survey exhibition which spans from the 1950s through the early 2000s. Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) is renowned for her formative participation in the Abstract Expressionist movement. This exhibition will showcase early mixed media collages, as well as gestural and figurative watercolors that build on the associative mark-making of her abstract paintings.
Hartigan began making watercolor collages, which were unique to her practice, in the 1960s and the medium became so important to her that she called it a 鈥渟econd expression鈥� from the 1980s onward. Watercolor was particularly suitable to her at this time because it resembled the manner in which she was using thin, transparent oil glazes in her recent canvases. Some collages act as studies for or mirrors of Hartigan鈥檚 large scale oil works. Articulations Collage (1968) references a series of Anatomy paintings that the artist made in 1968-1969, each which feature Hartigan鈥檚 amalgamation of representational images that would come to define her paintings in the mid 60s and 70s. These watercolor collages combine the abstract elements and lyricism of her early work with her desire to be free to work with any subject material.
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