Piccolo, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 62 x 62 in.
From the Press Release:
A nationally known artist whose work is represented in museums across the United States, Ann Purcell creates abstract paintings, collages, and works on paper in which she explores tensions of paradox, ambiguity, duality, and contradiction. Using an active process related to dance—an important form to her when she was growing up—Purcell brings feeling and movement into her work, drawing the viewer into an emotional engagement with it. In her art, dense shapes can lose solidity, openings can seem to close and then open again, gestures can waver between decisiveness and acquiescence, and space and form change roles. Observing Purcell’s art is like listening to music, in which the meaning is fully present in our minds, but hard to put into words.
Born in 1941 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Arlington, Virginia, Purcell studied independently in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and received her B.A. from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1973. She received her M.A. in Liberal Studies from New York University in 1995. Purcell first exhibited her work in 1971, when she had a solo exhibition at Villa Roma Gallery, San Miguel de Allende. She has subsequently had numerous solo shows at prominent venues including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. She also took part in several notable museum group exhibitions, including shows at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Lagniappe #1, 1977, mixed media on canvas, 72 x 66 in.
AM-RM, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 in.
Ann Purcell: Paintings from the 1970s
January 8 - February 7, 2015
Berry Campbell
530 W 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
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