JOANNA POUSETTE-DART
September 8 - October 17, 2020
Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Joanna Pousette-Dart (American, b. 1947). This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery, following her inclusion in the 2017 group exhibition, Shape Paintings.
Works on Paper
“In both the drawings and the paintings I try to suggest line moving through light, but I rely heavily on transparency and gesture in the drawings. In the paintings I want light to appear as though it’s constantly readjusting as it does in nature. I layer the surfaces to create variations in temperature and tonality to make the ground feel as if it’s moving. The lines are built up out of thin layers of colors, which can change incrementally according to their relationship with the ground.”
—Joanna Pousette-Dart in conversation with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn Rail, October 2008
Untitled Red #3, 2008, acrylic on paper, 25 1/2 x 40 inches
“As with animation, Pousette-Dart’s shapes segue into one another, regularly conveying motion and pulling our eyes off the canvas. . . There is an overriding appearance of liquidity and, by extension, shape-shifting.”
—Barbara A. MacAdams, Brooklyn Rail, June 2019
“The sloping forms evoke[d] the earth’s curvature and mountains. . . Sequence, disruption, panorama, and alteration—all ways of perceiving an immense, elemental landscape—become central to her paintings.”
-John Yau, Hyperallergic, April 2019
Untitled Red #2, 2008, acrylic on paper
45 1/4 x 30 inches
Biography
Joanna Pousette-Dart (b. 1947) holds a BA from Bennington College, Vermont (1968). She has had recent solo exhibitions at the Wiesbaden Museum in Wiesbaden, Germany (catalogue available); Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, and Texas Gallery, Houston, TX. Her work is included in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN and Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
Recent Press
The Originality of Joanna Pousette-Dart by Carter Ratcliff - Hyperallergic, October 2020
Joanna Pousette-Dart: Floating World by Tom McGlynn - The Brooklyn Rail, October 2020
In Conversation: Joanna Pousette-Dart with Barbara Rose - The Brooklyn Rail, June 2019
Joanna Pousette-Dart's Landscape by John Yau - Hyperallergic, April 2019
Joanna Pousette-Dart at Museum Weisbaden - Weisbaden, Germany, March - June 2019