POUSETTE-DART describes this body of work as informed by landscape but less about the physical reality of landscape than about:

the experience of moving through it, and about certain inherent primal relationships that are a constant. After traveling and working in New Mexico, I began moving away from the rectangle to shapes suggesting anomalies of space, distance, and horizon. I saw the alignment of the shapes as a momentary stance within an encompassing event – an idiosyncratic conjunction implying imminence and the lie of completion. I wanted the shapes to interlock with the drawing inside them to form a continuum. The image is generated from the place where the panels meet. It knits them together while unraveling them from within.

In his catalogue essay Carter Ratcliff describes POUSETTE-DART's approach as having an atmospheric effect:

as surfaces become depths and depths become surfaces, a surface might look airy and then palpable and then both at once. Because texture is so unrelentingly subtle, it cannot be separated from subtleties of color. Each of the paintings in this exhibition has its own chromatic weather, the complex and sunny precipitate of colors converging with fresh, even startling results.

POUSETTE-DART lives and works New York City. POUSETTE-DART’s work is included in distinguished public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Portland Art Museum, Oregon.

An illustrated catalogue with an essay by Carter Ratcliff is available (12 pages).

The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

For further information or photographs, please contact the gallery.

Above image: studio view of Untitled (M/C #6), 80 x 96 ½" and Untitled (M/C #5), 82 x 96"
both: acrylic on canvas on wood panel from 2003-04