New Publication

Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say it All?
August 15, 2022
  • This fully-illustrated catalogue features 17 canvases drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre in documentation of the most comprehensive solo presentation...

    This fully-illustrated catalogue features 17 canvases drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre in documentation of the most comprehensive solo presentation of her painting for US audiences in decades. Staged in 2022 in New York, Doesn’t the Paint Say It All? was the first exhibition at Kasmin dedicated to the work of Tanning, whose pioneering explorations into the space between abstraction and figuration continue to influence vital painters today. Included in the publication are newly-commissioned essays by Mary Ann Caws, Kate Conley, and Victoria Carruthers, as well as a text by Tanning herself titled, “To Paint”.

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  • About the Artist

    Dorothea Tanning
    © Brigitte Lacombe

    Dorothea Tanning

    Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) was an American artist and writer. Associated early in her career with Surrealism, she worked in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and various media on paper including drawings, watercolor, and collage, in which she tested the boundaries of figuration and abstraction, arriving at a unique approach that often hovers between the two. Between 1986 and 2011, Tanning published two memoirs, a novel, and two collections of poems. Her art is represented in museum collections internationally and has been recognized recently in solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Tate Modern, London, and The Menil Collection, Houston.

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