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Robert Gordy
Louisiana artist Robert Gordy was known for his complex acrylic paintings which featured patterning and repetition, and linear shapes in a flat pictorial space in closely-keyed colors. In the early 1980s, the human head began to emerge as an important element in his paintings and in a series of monotypes created in Santa Fe.
Invited to a residency at Graphicstudio in 1983, Gordy created his first etchings in aquatint. Both Female Head and Nude make direct references to African sculpture, which Gordy collected. Female Head is an exceptionally rich, black and velvety aquatint, the central figure occupying almost the entire space, while Nude employs linear figuration and all over patterning in a figure which, cut off at the head, arms and feet, nonetheless fills the plane and extends into surrounding space.
Gordy had solo exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York and the Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans. He was included in the 1973 Whitney Biennial, and the 21st National Print Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, among many other exhibitions. Born in Louisiana in 1933, Gordy died in 1989.
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