Caio Fonseca: New Paintings on Paper

From August 16 through September 30, The Drawing Room in East Hampton is pleased to present "Caio Fonseca: new paintings on paper", an exhibition featuring abstract gouaches created in the artist’s studio in Pietrasanta, Italy. A native New Yorker, Fonseca divides his time between Italy, New York City and the South Fork.

Fonseca mines fresh territory in this new body of work, which is distinct in its elegant simplicity and rich palette. Evolving over three decades, his painterly language invokes not only the eloquence of pure abstraction, but a robust corporeality as well. A classically trained pianist, Fonseca has an eye as well as an ear for pure abstraction. In the current paintings he orchestrates the compositional elements with a radical sense of economy, setting in motion a visual experience that unfolds moment by moment in the viewer’s eye. This sense of movement activates the picture field in which bold, rhythmic swaths of color dance across textured white grounds recalling Mediterranean light. Incised linear striations raked across the surface create a subtle horizontal articulation that holds the strong cascading forms in check.

See below for full press release and selected works.