Taktisch

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Victoria Gitman: Taktisch, an exhibition of paintings at 545 West 20th Street. Opening on January 11, 2018, the exhibition is the artist’s first since her recent retrospective at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Eight of Gitman’s astonishingly naturalistic paintings will be on view, all created between 2016 and 2017.

The exhibition focuses on Gitman’s recent paintings—meticulously rendered abstractions based on the supple fur surfaces of vintage handbags. Gitman works in oils, hair by hair, creating surfaces that are delicately painted from close, direct observation.

The title of the exhibition is a neologism introduced by Vienna School art historian Aloïs Riegl to describe a kind of close-up perception or “visual touching.” Taktisch can at once signify “tactile,” “tangible,” “palpable,” or “textural,” as well as “tactical.”

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to represent Victoria Gitman.