Lew Allen Galleries opens Katherines Poeter :Paper Works, February 27, 2026

Opening Today, Friday, February 27th, 2026 KATHERINE PORTER: Paper Works KATHERINE PORTER: Paper Works Opening Today, Friday, February 27th, 2026 The paintings and works on paper created by Katherine Porter (1941-2024) stand as one of the significant bodies of work in American Color Abstraction. Her place as one of its most distinguished women practitioners is marked by a remarkable career spanning nearly six decades. Her paintings and works on paper are held within the permanent collections of more than forty important national and international museums.   Her works on paper channel the complexities of her times into signal expressions resulting in high-energy oils and mixed media – pulsating with vibrant kinetic energy and employing a unique visual vocabulary: equal parts geometric, chromatic, and gestural. The noted late art historian Lydia Csato Gasman once described Porter's output as "the vast domain of spontaneity untamed." The artist took chaos and, through a remarkable capacity for creative spontaneity, transformed the subject into sheer brilliance. The expression demonstrates a rare virtuosity of creative freedom blended with technical discipline. The work serves as her personal cri de coeur, cry of the heart, for a better world.    View Exhibition

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ANIMATION: Katherine Porter, Global Warming, 2000, oil on paper, 29.5 x 25 in Katherine Porter, Kingdom (detail), 1997-98, mixed media on paper, 45.5 x 42.5 in  Katherine Porter, Untitled (detail), 1977, mixed media on paper, 20.5 x 27.75 in     EXHIBITIONS: Herman Maril, Kendall Lane Beach / Cape Beach (detail), 1976, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in Forrest, Moses, A Bit of Stream, 2012, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in   ©2026 LewAllen Galleries | Artwork ©The Estates of the artists pictured

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