Fall 2024 Evening Lecture Series: Richard Baker, Paul Bowen, Georgia Marsh, and Helen Miranda Wilson; moderated by Kara Carmack, "Dazzle: The Life and Work of Pat de Groot," recorded on December 4, 2024.
This event coincides with the exhibition Pat de Groot: Sea Smoke, on view at NYSS’s Main Gallery from November 21, 2024 through January 12, 2025.
Pat de Groot’s paintings emerge from her deep connection to the distinctive geographic and atmospheric conditions of Provincetown, MA, where she settled in 1963 with her husband Nanno de Groot, a Dutch-born Abstract Expressionist painter. Rarely exceeding 12 x 11 inches in size, her intimate oil-on-board paintings of the Provincetown Harbor outside of her studio window transcend the genre of “seascapes.” They are not merely paintings of the sea, sky, and sand, but rather evocative meditations on perception, meteorological conditions, and the natural world. Ken Johnson, in the New York Times, describes the conceptual underpinnings of de Groot’s paintings as, “part Zen, part American Transcendentalist, part Modernist formalist. Contradicting the horizontal expanse of conventional seascape painting, Ms. De Groot’s works have a blocky presence that calls to mind Robert Ryman and Agnes Martin.” Her telescopic gaze of the endless horizon, sky, and sea, conveys a humble observational relationality with ever-changing natural forces.
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