Matthew Marks Gallery opens the largest exhibition of Anne Truitt`s paintings since the 1970s
(Artdaily.org)

Matthew Marks is presenting Anne Truitt Paintings, the new exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. Featuring eleven works on canvas made between 1974 and 1993, this is the largest exhibition of Truitt’s paintings since the 1970s. Known primarily for her totemic wood sculptures painted in subtle shades of color, Truitt also made innovative paintings for more than three decades. Rarely seen during her lifetime (only one of the works in this exhibition has been shown before), Truitt’s paintings juxtapose fields of rich color applied in multiple layers using a masking technique Truitt first developed in the 1960s. One of the largest paintings in the exhibition, the nine-foot-wide Engadine I (1990), features two shades of purplish black divided along a sharp vertical border that bisects the composition into unequal yet optically balanced halves. Despite her pared-down formal vocabulary,