New Publication

Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say it All?
August 15, 2022
  • This fully-illustrated catalogue features 17 canvases drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre in documentation of the most comprehensive solo presentation...

    This fully-illustrated catalogue features 17 canvases drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre in documentation of the most comprehensive solo presentation of her painting for US audiences in decades. Staged in 2022 in New York, Doesn’t the Paint Say It All? was the first exhibition at Kasmin dedicated to the work of Tanning, whose pioneering explorations into the space between abstraction and figuration continue to influence vital painters today. Included in the publication are newly-commissioned essays by Mary Ann Caws, Kate Conley, and Victoria Carruthers, as well as a text by Tanning herself titled, “To Paint”.

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  • About the Artist

    Dorothea Tanning

    Dorothea Tanning

    Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) was an American artist and writer. Associated early in her career with surrealism, she worked in painting, sculpture, and printmaking while living in the United States and France. Between 1986 and 2011, she published two memoirs, a novel, and two collections of poems. Tanning’s art is internationally recognized in museum collections, and recently in solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and Tate Modern, London.

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