Opening Thursday, April 3, 6-7:30 pm
George Woodman: A Democracy of Parts, Paintings 1966-1978 at DC Moore Gallery
‍535 W 22nd St, 2nd floor, New York

From the fall of 1965 through the summer of 1966, George Woodman spent the year living and working near Florence, Italy. It was in this year—while he was immersed in Italian culture and absorbing lessons from his travels to various European cities—that the presence of pattern and attention to color that characterized his earlier paintings took a definitive turn. Working in studio in a 16th century building, surrounded by casts of the Parthenon, Woodman created the first of his fully developed paintings based on systematic approaches to pattern and color. Among these was a series of paintings influenced by Romanesque inlay, the geometry of Alberti, and a 13th Century circular floor mosaic called Cosmati. The paintings that filled his studio over the course of that year made their way back to Boulder, Colorado with Woodman, and were presented in an exhibition there at the end of 1966. This pivotal year charted the direction of his work for the next 15 years.