Exhibition dates: June 21–July 9, 2022

Opening reception: Thursday, June 23, 5-8 PM

Closing celebration: Saturday, July 9, 3-6 PM

Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 11AM-6 PM

Lynn Kotula (1945-2021) created a kind of magic that is simultaneously quiet and robust. Completely lacking in pretense or artifice, her still lifes and landscapes are built on acute sensitivity, keen analysis, and deep love for the experience of seeing. They richly reward close observation.

Spanning Kotula’s entire career, Lynn Kotula: A Life in Painting 1984–2020 gives us what any artist would hope to leave: a chronicle of her keen visual understanding of the world, and what painting can make of it.  Kotula’s work explores the tension between the perceived world and the abstraction inherent in the two-dimensional surface of a painting. “I think that opposition is what nourishes me,” she wrote. “Abstraction/naturalism. I need both and I’m always looking for ways to have one nourish or enrich the other.”

This will be Kotula’s twelfth solo show in New York. Her work has previously been seen at NYC venues including the Bowery Gallery (4 solo shows), Prince Street Gallery (7 solo shows), Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Lohin Geduld Gallery, the National Academy of Design, and the Painting Center, as well as numerous galleries elsewhere including: the Contemporary Realist Gallery in San Francisco; Watson-MacRae Gallery, Sanibel Island, Fla.; the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Montecastelo, Italy; and at museums throughout the US.

Exhibition catalog available. More information on the artist at www.lynnkotula.com.