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“Suppose now [we have] an artist sensuously hypnotized by that historical culture, choosing to quote and displace certain of its works so as to distill from each of them some new fragrance of sex, anxiety, or menace that comes, drop by drop, into our consciousness. Dotty Attie habitually treats the surface of an old master as a zone in which certain caressed details are fastened upon and isolated: a foot, hands, someone’s glance. Each of these re-created image-fragments blooms as if in response to the act of looking.” – Max Kozloff, Art in America, July 1991
Public Gallery is pleased to present 40 Years, the first UK solo exhibition and major retrospective of works by Dotty Attie, whose practice rigorously engages the grid as a formal and conceptual tool, masterfully rendering her small-scale drawings and canvases to create cadenced arrangements that disrupt the art historical canon. A pioneering figure of the downtown...More
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“Suppose now [we have] an artist sensuously hypnotized by that historical culture, choosing to quote and displace certain of its works so as to distill from each of them some new fragrance of sex, anxiety, or menace that comes, drop by drop, into our consciousness. Dotty Attie habitually treats the surface of an old master as a zone in which certain caressed details are fastened upon and isolated: a foot, hands, someone’s glance. Each of these re-created image-fragments blooms as if in response to the act of looking.” – Max Kozloff, Art in America, July 1991
Public Gallery is pleased to present 40 Years, the first UK solo exhibition and major retrospective of works by Dotty Attie, whose practice rigorously engages the grid as a formal and conceptual tool, masterfully rendering her small-scale drawings and canvases to create cadenced arrangements that disrupt the art historical canon. A pioneering figure of the downtown...More
