Written by Jacques Menier Friday, 01 April 2011 22:49

"Huldra" A Solo Exhibiton By Amy Talluto At The Black & White Gallery

Brooklyn, N.Y.- The Black & White Gallery in Brooklyn, is presenting 'Huldra', a solo exhibition of recent works by Amy Talluto from April 8 to May 15 2011. The title of the show alludes to a witch-like character in Swedish folklore, The Huldra, who is very beautiful and lures men into the deep woods. After a while, the men suddenly discover themselves alone, lost and disoriented as the Huldra reveals her bark-covered back, turns into a tree and blends back into the forest. This exhibition features meticulously executed paintings and drawings, which characteristically for Talluto engage with depicting quiet and expansive natural worlds.

The new works continue Talluto’s interest in using trees and forests as an inexhaustible reservoir of forms for her investigation of the interrelationship of movement and stillness, of rhythm and cacophony, of contextual claims and disorientation. The works are at once sumptuous and subtle, enigmatic and disarmingly stark. Their overflowing vitality, their unflinching zapping between colors and forms, their constant changes of tempo, their gestures and experimental arrangement make painting the theme.

An artist with a uniquely compelling visual language, Talluto keeps ducking and weaving to avoid being pinned down and to remain inscrutable overall. Thus the paintings and drawings oscillate between the mysterious and strange. The absence of any great central perspective, of feeling at home in a province of meaning reveal the movement towards the maximum possible openness in the artist’s work.  Viewers will be struck both by the precision and the mastery of this young painter making use of different techniques, and her quest for new forms and stylistics, a constant need for experimentation and development. Amy Talluto was born and mainly raised in New Orleans, LA, except for a short stint in early childhood when she lived in Cheyenne, WY and Madison, WI. As a teenager in New Orleans, she began painting and photographing landscapes, inspired by a large and wild, thistle-filled field across the street from her mother's apartment in Chalmette, a New Orleans suburb. She earned her BFA at Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 and then moved to New York, where she has lived until her recent move to Woodstock, NY. She earned her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001.

Black & White Gallery was founded in New York in 2002. The Gallery location was a unique industrial indoor/outdoor ground floor space in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the breeding ground of emerging talent at that time. From the outset, the Gallery has been committed to cultivating promising artists in the initial and more advanced phases of their careers exploring contemporary themes and concepts through multiple mediums. From 2006 to 2010 the Gallery operated from two locations, Williamsburg and Chelsea. During this period, the Williamsburg location was dedicated exclusively to production and presentation of site-specific installations. As of April 2010, Black & White Gallery/Project Space has operated out of a single location, its original gallery at 483 Driggs Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.blackandwhiteartgallery.com

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