Artist: Elliott Puckette
Exhibition: "Figurative + Abstraction"
The Earl McGrath Gallery
September 21-October 14, 2006
Curator: Dane Jensen

Elliott Puckette’s works are elegant compositions resulting from a labor intensive process of overlaying the surface with a subtle palette of ink wash then adding a foreground of sinuous hard lines. The effect created is that of a buoyant field of calligraphic lines over the contrasting billowing ground of ink wash. The majority of Puckette’s 2006 works, first shown at the Earl McGrath Gallery Los Angeles, differ from her previous works in that they are largely monochromatic. This approach serves to further the allusion the paintings make to ancient Asian typography.
Puckette’s work has been reviewed in numerous publications including, Art in America, Artforum, Art + Auction, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Elle Décor and Vogue. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The New York Public Library and the Fogg Art Museum in Boston. Elliott was born in Lexington, Kentucky and received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union, New York. Elliott lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Hugo Guinness, and their two young children