Black & White
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY is proud to present Huldra - solo exhibition of
recent works by Amy Talluto.
The title of the show alludes to a witch-like
character in Swedish folklore - The Huldra, who is very beautiful and lures men
into the deep woods. After a while, the men suddenly discover themselves alone,
lost and disoriented as the Huldra reveals her bark-covered back, turns into a
tree and blends back into the
forest.
This exhibition features
meticulously executed paintings and drawings, which characteristically for
Talluto engage with depicting quiet and expansive natural worlds. These new
works continue Talluto’s interest in using trees and forests as an
inexhaustible reservoir of forms for her investigation of the interrelationship
of movement and stillness, of rhythm and cacophony, of contextual claims and
disorientation. The works are at once sumptuous and subtle, enigmatic and
disarmingly stark. Their overflowing vitality, their unflinching zapping between
colors and forms, their constant changes of tempo, their gestures and
experimental arrangement make painting the theme.
An artist with a uniquely
compelling visual language, Talluto keeps ducking and weaving to avoid being
pinned down and to remain inscrutable overall. Thus the paintings and drawings
oscillate between the mysterious and strange. The absence of any great central
perspective, of feeling at home in a province of meaning reveal the movement
towards the maximum possible openness in the artist’s work. Viewers
will be struck both by the precision and the mastery of this young painter
making use of different techniques, and her quest for new forms and stylistics,
a constant need for experimentation and
development.
Amy Talluto
was born and mainly raised in New Orleans, LA, except for a short stint in early
childhood when she lived in Cheyenne, WY and Madison, WI. As a teenager in New
Orleans, she began painting and photographing landscapes, inspired by a large
and wild, thistle-filled field across the street from her mother's apartment in
Chalmette, a New Orleans suburb. She earned her BFA at Washington University in
St. Louis in 1995 and then moved to New York, where she has lived until her
recent move to Woodstock, NY. She earned her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in
New York in 2001.
Image: Amy Talluto, Huldra, oil on canvas,
80x60 inches / click
here to view images
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ISIDRO BLASCO: THE END OF
THINGS (site-specific installation) continues at BLACK
& WHITE PROJECT
SPACE
