Addison Gallery of American Art acquires work by Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick's 1974 work, Untitled (A), has been acquired by the Addison Gallery of American Art.

 

Untitled (A) is part of an important series of paintings on paper from 1974, in which WalkingStick uses, for the first time, wax in the acrylic paint, layered over poured ink. In a process of both covering and uncovering a geometry, she brings to the fore a complex relationship between positive and negative space. In this work, WalkingStick distils elements of the arcs of a draped tipi, progressing the form to a simplified, bowed rectangle. Compositionally consistent, the paintings in this series explore the relationship between medium and form in experimentations with ink, acrylic and adding wax - creating a thicker, sensuality of surface, which she would continue to explore in later abstractions.