Berry Campbell is pleased to announce an important exhibition of paintings by legendary abstract painter, Yvonne Thomas. This historic exhibition is a finely curated group of sixteen paintings from 1963 – 1965. The repetitive footprint rectangle shapes in these works are intriguing: some seem meant to be distinct shapes, gone over by the artist additively to define and clarify their contours; others are subtractive, consisting of scraped rectangles. Still others appear to consist just of direct strokes of paint applied with wide brushes. These forms derive from the more defined elements that began to emerge in Thomas’s Abstract Expressionist work in the 1950s, but here she took what had been spontaneous marks and made them conscious and deliberate. The exhibition will open the 2019 fall season with a reception on Thursday, September 5, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm and continues through October 5, 2019.
