Wook & Lattuada is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Angiola Churchill, on view from May 25 – June 26, 2010 in our Midtown East, New York gallery. Titled “Variations in a Square,” the show features two hundred new drawings that reflect the full breadth of the artist’s creative genius refined over the course of her long and influential career.

Churchill’s latest drawings–most of which are devoid of color–provide an orientation point from which her overall accomplishments over the past five decades can be surveyed. She along with Twombly, Whistler, and Kelly understood that not all painting means forming a picture out of color, that neither paint nor color is equated with expressiveness.

Variations in a Square is modern crossing over from the external world into the apex of the artist’s imagination, and from this subjective standpoint of the knower who spins the meaning of life out of her own history, we go beyond mere ‘looking’ to ‘seeing.’ These drawings have been created under the guidance of a pictorial reality in which memories and ideas, without a hint of sentimentality, take on new and different meanings, while redefining and recharging modernism.

It seems a propitious moment to single out the world of Angiola Churchill, an artist who has shown extensively in Europe. In her latest exhibition, we can see and experience the abstract preoccupations of much of twentieth century art through the work of a teacher who has exerted considerable influence on the artistic climate and mental set of her day.

Some of the greatest artists of our time have been teachers — Rufino Tamayo, Joseph and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, and Hans Hoffmann — to name but a few. This show brings the fundamental achievements of Angiola Churchill, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Art and Art Professions, as an artist into focus.

Churchill lives and works in New York City.

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