Mythical Selves: The Art of Self Expression

Elliott Puckette’s eleventh solo exhibition at Kasmin Gallery, Unfolding, includes two bronze sculptures and eight ink, gesso, and kaolin on wood panel paintings. The latter’s gessoed grounds and ink base layers are applied in marbled monochromatic washes of swirling aniline grey and grisaille silver. Where these iron clouds break, uneven crepuscular cleaves of dusted alabaster light splinter through like lightning. Each work is marked by white razor blade arcs—Puckette’s signature lines. The gyrations of these serpentine, lineal furrows are first etched and then deepened with cross-hatching as Puckette further subtracts the line from the wood panel, the recesses making negative space material.

Kasmin announces exclusive global representation of the artwork of Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Pollock was an Abstract Expressionist painter and defining figure of postwar American art, whose paintings and visionary techniques rank among the most recognizable and influential among the 20th century. In just under three decades, Pollock revolutionized the modes of art making for generations to come.