Joan Witek
dal 15/9/2003 al 11/10/2003
Segnalato da
15/9/2003
Joan Witek
Bartha Contemporary, London
Joan Witek presents last work including the "Atlantic Series". Picture and drawings with a strong geometic identity.
On view will be the "Atlantic Series," in a variety of media including black pastel, silver pencil, and silver watercolour on film and rice paper. These are dramatic pictures in a narrow horizontal format that shine with a surface light. Although her work has concerned itself with the colour black for several decades, the recent pieces introduce the element of light along
with the black. These geometric works seem to ripple with an ephemeral, mysterious impressionism.
Witek's work is in the collections of over a dozen major museums in the United States including the Metropolitan Museum, and MOMA in New York, the MIT, Harvard and Yale University collections, and SFMOMA and several other West Coast museums Her work has travelled extensively to Austria,
Switzerland, Germany and Italy. This past year she was featured in the Metropolitan Museum's "Recent Acquisitions" Bulletin, which was accompanied by an exhibition that included Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, A.R. Penck, Markus Lupertz and Francesco Clemente among others. She is a recent recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Gallery N. von Bartha will also be showing works by Joan Witek as part of a forthcoming group exhibition entitled 'IN TIME' at Ben Janssens Oriental Art (91c Jermyn Street) from October 21st until 28th 2003. A catalogue accompanying the 'IN TIME' exhibition, as well as additional catalogues of recent solo and group exhibitions with work by Joan Witek are available at the gallery.
Gallery N. von Bartha
136b Lancaster Road
First Floor
London W11 1QU
Tel. 020 7985 0015
Fax. 020 7985 0016