After Magic: Early Works by Pat Passlof: 1948–1962

Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce After Magic, an exhibition of early works by Pat Passlof. Passlof, a major figure of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, was fundamental in downtown galleries and the intellectual milieu of the 1950s. About The exhibition includes approximately 35 small paintings, dated between 1948–62, along with two monumental canvases from the period. It documents the artist’s earliest work, from her 1948 summer at Black Mountain College, to the early 1960s, when she was living on Tenth Street in downtown New York. The exhibition chronicles the artist’s formal evolution over a decade and a half, from compositions that include geometric and organic shapes, to works characterized by their all-over painterly surfaces and dynamic color chords. Passlof ’s palette ranged from earth tones to soft pastels, to rich reds and blues. Each painting represented its own unique journey, never pre-meditated or repeated. Painting