“My abstract painting, which emerged in the 1950s, was not a pure geometric abstraction,” Gramcko explained. “Though realized with hard lines and planes of color, its forms were closer to the expressive than to the geometric.” While part of a Venezuelan artistic milieu championing abstraction, Gramcko always affirmed her individuality and rejected all movements and affiliations. This work embraces idiosyncrasy through irregular shapes and eccentric lines rarely seen in the mathematically precise and symmetric work of her colleagues.
Gallery label from Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift, October 21, 2019–March 14, 2020
