For Immediate Release
“ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK: House Paint and Other Essays”
Solo Show Opens Sept. 19th at TheBrownstoneArt, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY (August 19, 2021) TheBrownstoneArt is pleased to present new paintings and photographs by Anne Sherwood Pundyk, September 19th through October 17th.
Pundyk works with paint and unstretched canvas on the floor, the wall and the sloping lawn outside her studio on the North Fork of Long Island to make large-scale paintings of color-stained and stitched fabric panels. Alongside these works she bases her photographs around her daily notebook writing, creating images using a home office scanner, Photoshop, an iPhone and a glitchy archival inkjet printer. Pundyk’s expansive abstract paintings and intimate color photographs of handwritten journal pages have a presence both familiar and otherworldly.
Much of the paint Pundyk applies to full-scale sections of unstretched canvas is free to flee across the surface in rivulets; or in contrast, to soak deeply into the fabric forming coastlines and diluted tidelines. She sews the canvas panels together by machine, constructing a fundamental anatomy distinct to each work. Employing simple tools such as string, a tack and straight edge, Pundyk draws systems of assertive overlapping circles, grids and zigzags in colored pencil. Subsequently hand-painted, the bold, geometric shapes create flashpoints of color poised at various depths in the painted space. The artist uses Indigo blue as a somber, yet soothing foil for her otherwise high-key palette. Finally, dashed seam lines trail off in untrimmed threads at the paintings’ edges.
A selection of photographs from a total edition of 15 “Paint Box Prints,” reveal a meditative series of variations on a theme. The image of an open, handwritten diary is placed in the center of each print. The book pages are framed by two consecutive boarders, as if zooming out, using a progression of digital manipulations. The nested images are photographed against multi-colored woven surfaces, under shifting, imperfect natural light conditions.
The artist moved her studio from Manhattan to the rural town of Mattituck, NY in 2014. She draws inspiration from another East End painter, the late Alan Shields, who said about his own artwork,“…The work goes through far more steps than it looks like. In the end, hopefully it just looks like it doesn’t have any steps in it at all. It’s just there.” Pundyk’s on-going interest in creating an authentic expression through her materials is reinforced by her observation of the every-changing North Fork landscape, with its transitional meadows, wetlands, fields, forests and waterways.
A selection of the artist’s videos, artist books and journals will be on view during the exhibition.
Anne Sherwood Pundyk is a painter and writer based in Mattituck and Manhattan. She has recently exhibited her work at The Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY; East End Arts, Riverhead, NY; and VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY. Her video about painting, “UN-CRUSHING YOUR SOUL” was published this spring in The Loculus Journal of performance and dance.
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TheBrownstoneArt, located in Park Slope, was founded in 2019 by David Backus and Josh Voegelin. The gallery focuses on contemporary abstract and conceptual artwork.
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Exhibition Details:
“ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK: House Paint and Other Essays”
September 19th to October 17th
TheBrownstoneArt
129 Park Place
Brooklyn, NY
In-Person Opening: September 19th, 1 – 6 pm
In-Person Closing: October 17th, 1 – 6 pm
Details for additional exhibition events are forthcoming.
The exhibition may be viewed in person by appointment. The gallery is following current COVID-19 guidelines and kindly requests proof of vaccination.
Contact: David Backus and Josh Voegelin:
email: thebrownstoneart129@gmail.com
or call: (917) 453-3143