CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/28/2017

Eerie and Mystifying. Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing

"I find the forms I invent continually reflected in the external world, and must believe that the opposition and attraction implicit between them mirrors something which pervades all life, artistic, biological and intellectual. It is the tension between male and female, balance, order and chance, between dissonance and harmony." Soot Series #1 (1963) is reproduced from Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing, a cool little book on the inveterately courageous but largely overlooked artist who died in 2010. A distant relative of Western painter Frederic Remington, Deborah Remington founded the celebrated Six Gallery in 1950s San Francisco, lived in Japan for two years in order to immerse herself in the art of calligraphy, traveled throughout southeast Asia working odd jobs, and came back to New York to produce mystifying, eerie paintings based upon the studies collected here.