Françoise Gilot at the New York Studio School

Françoise Gilot has been an expert witness to past significant events and great moments. She is immersed in the present tense of painting and also a close friend of powerful memories. Her paintings contain and reveal their memories with a sassiness and subtle humor that only a serious artist can assimilate well.

It is quite an achievement to be able to make a visual connection between the Paris of the “Apache” dancer and the rituals of the Mimbres and the Mescaleros.

Her paintings have the simultaneous fragility and robustness of a custom made bi-plane: speed and vulnerability claiming space. Her saturated colors inhale Navaho reds and Provençal browns and exhale California blues and whites. These colors as in a “beautiful” theorem exude logic and also, mysteriously, desire.

GRAHAM NICKSON

Dean,
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture

Françoise Gilot at the Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1950s

Françoise Gilot: Compositions, 2002-2005 October 18 to December 1, 2007
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	Foreword by Graham Nickson Artist's Statement Françoise Gilot Curator's Statement by Louise Tolliver Deutschman checklist resume podcast: Françoise Gilot in conversation with David Cohen new york studio school gallery program	Françoise Gilot has been an expert witness to past significant events and great moments. She is immersed in the present tense of painting and also a close friend of powerful memories. Her paintings contain and reveal their memories with a sassiness and subtle humor that only a serious artist can assimilate well. It is quite an achievement to be able to make a visual connection between the Paris of the “Apache” dancer and the rituals of the Mimbres and the Mescaleros. Her paintings have the simultaneous fragility and robustness of a custom made bi-plane: speed and vulnerability claiming space. Her saturated colors inhale Navaho reds and Provençal browns and exhale California blues and whites. These colors as in a “beautiful” theorem exude logic and also, mysteriously, desire. GRAHAM NICKSON Dean, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Françoise Gilot at the Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1950s