View 'Hockney in Normandy'

You have a few hours left to view "Hockney in Normandy" online - which closes later today at the Richard Gray Gallery at 1018 Madison Ave, New York.

The presentation features recent iPad paintings and a suite of landscape prints made from original ink on paper drawings. This new body of work highlights Hockney’s singular sense of line and form and his longstanding commitment to exploring perspective as mediated by technology.

Hockney in Normandy

Gray Gallery, New York (22 February 2021 - 19 March 2021)

There is a Viewing Room for Hockney in Normandy in which there are:

• excellent views of the artwork on display
• a video about the exhibition - worth watching
• a commentary on Hockney's continued prolific output and his continued use of a wide range of media - including technology - to draw and paint

It reflects the intimate interior spaces of his Normandy home "La Grande Cour" and its scenic surroundings.

In 2019, while familiarizing himself with the surroundings of his studio in Normandy—a seventeenth-century building with thick timber, red shingles, a reflecting pond, and plenty of blooming brush—Hockney set out with ink and concertina sketchbooks which would result in a series of works on paper depicting the idyllic countryside that surrounded him. Drawing the viewer into an amble through his gardens, Hockney in Normandy presents the suite of prints produced from those paintings on paper. Gray Gallery 

"We do not look at the world from a distance; we are in it, and that’s how we feel… I tend to like the thought that I’m in the world. I don’t want just to look through keyholes." David Hockney

Hockney has always been inspired by great artists - notably Picasso. There is a sense in this exhibition that he's now examining the work of Monet who was the first great artist to feature Normandy in his paintings.

POSTSCRIPT

Yesterday's post has been updated with the details of the new book Spring Cannot be Cancelled by David Hockney and Martin Gayford - which will be published by Thames and Hudson on 25 March 2021. My copy is already on order!

You can read more of my blog posts about David Hockney over the years via my "David Hockney" label.