The Public Gallery showcases Dotty Attie's retrospective, featuring her use of the grid as both a conceptual tool and artistic medium. A significant figure in the 1970s New York art scene and co-founder of the A.I.R. gallery, Attie's exhibition spans her career from 1972 to 1986, highlighting her innovative small-scale drawings and canvases. Notable works, such as What Surprised Them Most and In Old Age He Painted, reflect a tension between eroticism and structure, inviting viewers to engage with the art on personal and interpretive levels.
Attie was a co-founder of the feminist cooperative A.I.R. gallery and rigorously engages the grid as a formal and conceptual tool in her artworks.
Attie's extensive career is analyzed over three floors, with her influence in both contemporary art and feminist practice prominently featured.
Her work blends eroticism and terror with a rhythmic grid, requiring the viewer's complicity in uncovering meaning within the fragmented compositions.
In Old Age He Painted marks Attie's transition from line to grid, engaging with historical art references and conceptual tensions.
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