Elliott
Puckette
The exhibit of new paintings and drawings, at the Earl McGrath
Gallery Los Angeles, is Elliott Puckette’s first solo show
with the gallery. Puckette's paintings have shown in New York,
London, Milan, and Los Angeles since 1993, including the Paul
Kasmin Gallery, Matthew Marks Gallery, The Armand Hammer Museum
and the Hamiltons Gallery in London.
Elliott Puckette's works are elegant compositions resulting from
a labor intensive process of applying generous layers of gesso
to a panel, then they are overlaid with a subtle palette of ink
wash. The surface is then carved with a razor blade producing
a foreground of sinuous hard lines. The effect created is that
of a buoyant field of calligraphic lines over the contrasting
billowing ground of ink wash.
Puckette's work has been reviewed in numerous publications including,
Art in America, Artforum, Art + Auction, The New Yorker, The New
York Times, Elle Décor and Vogue. Her works are in the
permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York, The New York Public Library and the Fogg Art Museum
in Boston. Elliott was born in Lexington, Kentucky and received
a B.F.A. from Cooper Union, New York. Elliott lives and works
in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Hugo Guinness, and their two
young children.
