Jack Barrett Gallery is pleased to announce Pause, new works on paper by Abby Leigh. The show opens April 1st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. On April 9th, 315 Gallery will be hosting a conversation about the work between Abby Leigh and Carter Foster, the Stephen and Ames Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
The works are made with peach pit soot, glue and graphite on identically sized sheets of 10.5” by 10.5” paper. As the artist says of the body of work:
I began to make these drawings about 6 months after my husband died. When I had done 3 or so it occurred to me that they were memorial drawings. I was thinking about his life as a whole. The landscape made perfect sense to me, it all fit together, and now it was completed. Now I look at them as a meditation on solitude. They are drawings that are balanced and contained and they find their own equilibrium as I have. Carter Foster insightfully said to me that they were musical. I hope so. I have been given much and I hope that I have given something in return. My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude for my life, for Mitch, and for my work.
Abby Leigh is an artist based in New York City. She has shown extensively in Europe as well as the United States. Her work is in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, the Hammer Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Auchenbach Collection, Museums of San Francisco, among others. She is also represented in public collections in Italy, France and Denmark.
Artist Talk with Carter Foster
9 April 6.30-7.30pm