Linear Variation Series is Washington, D.C. based, multi-media artist Yvonne Pickering Carter's (b. 1939) Berry Campbell debut. In 2022, the story of Carter’s “comeback” was featured in an article in the New Yorker, after she was included in a group exhibition of women abstract artists at Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York. While Carter has been creating and exhibiting for over six decades, Berry Campbell is pleased to present this re-examination of Yvonne Pickering Carter’s work with her first solo exhibition in New York City.
Berry Campbell’s exhibition will examine part of Carter’s Linear Variation series, a group of paintings from the 1970s. In this group of paintings, Carter creates painterly white backdrops with brightly colored lines and veils rhythmically echoing her body’s cadence through the painting’s surface. While the works at times recall her Color Field contemporaries like Helen Frankenthaler and her Washington Color School contemporaries like Morris Louis, they also embrace the presence and action of the artist’s hand and body, giving a sense of immediacy and vitality to this body of work and previewing her performance work of the 1980s.
Yvonne Pickering Carter: Linear Variation Series opens with a reception on Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6 – 8 p.m. and continues through April 15, 2023. The exhibition is accompanied by a 16-page exhibition catalogue.
Berry Campbell’s exhibition will examine part of Carter’s Linear Variation series, a group of paintings from the 1970s. In this group of paintings, Carter creates painterly white backdrops with brightly colored lines and veils rhythmically echoing her body’s cadence through the painting’s surface. While the works at times recall her Color Field contemporaries like Helen Frankenthaler and her Washington Color School contemporaries like Morris Louis, they also embrace the presence and action of the artist’s hand and body, giving a sense of immediacy and vitality to this body of work and previewing her performance work of the 1980s.
Yvonne Pickering Carter: Linear Variation Series opens with a reception on Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6 – 8 p.m. and continues through April 15, 2023. The exhibition is accompanied by a 16-page exhibition catalogue.