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Anne Truitt

Dates Subject to Change. The first major exhibition of Truitt's work since her death in 2004, 'Anne Truitt' is a full survey of the sculpture and two-dimensional works made during the artist's 40-year career. A variety of three-dimensional works will be on view'suggestive of vernacular architectural forms from the artist's native Eastern Shore in which she explored the effects of scale and proportion. The retrospective also presents the column sculptures that became the hallmark of Truitt's profoundly focused practice. In many ways acting as a painter as well as a sculptor, the artist wrapped color around the corners of many of these sculptures, creating visually poetic relationships between the structural plane and the color plane. In the early 1960s, she was inspired to create reduced geometric forms after seeing works by Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman. Ultimately, Truitt pursued an independent course in her art-making, breaking away from the Color Field artists often associated with Washington, D.C., as well as the movement now known as Minimalism. Truitt, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1921, was based in Washington for most of her adult life and has been largely under-recognized for her contribution to post-1960 art. The exhibition is organized by assistant curator Kristen Hileman and will be accompanied by the first complete monograph on the artist. [ more information ]