Flora Crockett: Modern Color
October 6 - December 21, 2022
About the exhibition
Meredith Ward Fine Art is pleased to present Flora Crockett: Modern Color, an exhibition of 20 oil paintings on view from October 6th through November 18th (extended through December 21st). This exhibition will feature a new group of works that have never before been exhibited. The gallery will also be showing Crockett’s paintings at The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory (Booth A17) from November 2nd through 6th.
This is the third exhibition of Crockett’s paintings at Meredith Ward Fine Art and presents a survey of the artist’s work. From her intense biomorphic works of the 1940s and 1950s to her exuberant abstractions of the 1960s and 1970s, Crockett is both in tune with the avant-garde movements of her time and occupying a space that is entirely her own. Her paintings adapt lessons learned from studying with Fernand Léger and deeply engage with the visual language of abstraction. Throughout Crockett’s oeuvre, a masterfully deployed color sense and witty playfulness betray her confidence in stretching the bounds of abstraction and claiming the genre for herself.
The gallery is the exclusive representative of the artist’s estate and has previously mounted two exhibitions of her work, both of which received critical praise. Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times in 2015 that Crockett’s body of work could, “hold its own in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art or the Museum of Modern Art and in the history of American abstract painting.” In 2017, John Yau wrote in Hyperallergic, “Crockett persevered and produced a remarkable body of work deserving of our attention.”
Read more about Crockett here.