ON VIEW: Betty Woodman in "Drop, Cloth," Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, New York, 2025
Betty Woodman in Drop, Cloth
Hollis Taggart Gallery & Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
Opening reception Thursday, December 11
On view through January 10, 2026
Curated by Glenn Adamson and Severin Delfs, Drop, Cloth traces a 50-year lineage of draping in contemporary art. As Delfs explains, drapery is presented here "as a flexible visual language that connects perception to material form,” explored through approaches that are “diaphanous and ephemeral," "material and sculptural," and "pictorial and painterly.”
Betty Woodman’s Balustrade Relief Vase: 30 (1991) is shown alongside works by Beverly Semmes, Kennedy Yanko, Suchitra Mattai, and others. Adamson, who calls Woodman “the leading ceramic artist of her generation,” writes: “Though her materials were those of the studio potter she’d once been—nothing more than clay and glaze—she conjured from them unprecedentedly energetic forms, greatly inspired by the interwoven histories of dress and painting, particularly those of Italy, where she spent much of her time. Her Balustrade Relief Vase: 30, a Matisse-inflected still life, is a wonderful example. It takes a loose, caroming journey down the wall, not depicting fabric in any literal sense, but enjoying a comparable freedom of movement.”
The exhibition will have an opening reception on the evening of Thursday, December 11 at both galleries, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Adamson and Delfs.
For more information, please visit Hollis Taggart Gallery's and Susan Inglett Gallery's websites.