FALL TOURS

There is still time to experience the Pollock-Krasner House this season! An autumn visit offers a different perspective on the historic property: the crowds of summer have diminished, the landscape has changed, and the intimate character of the property becomes especially apparent.

SUSAN VECSEY AT THE PK HOUSE

ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 31

Susan Vecsey (b. 1971) draws from the traditions of Color Field and landscape painting to create abstractions from perception. Living and working in East Hampton, NY, Vecsey continues a tradition of abstraction informed by nature that is this region’s legacy. While she creates her canvases utilizing pouring techniques from the Color Field tradition, the landscape or the figure is often a starting point, a vehicle to explore form and color. Compositions are simplified to their essence to create a universal image. Vecsey works like a watercolorist, using thinned oil paint, carefully poured in a wet on wet process. No brushes are used in the application, to avoid brush marks, and to better show the beauty of materials. “With poured paint, timing is everything, and it is important to be decisive with it, and also ready to accept or reject the unexpected.”

Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Vecsey was raised in a dual culture by parents who emigrated from Hungary to the US in 1969. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. Vecsey has been exhibited alongside many notable artists including Josef Albers, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, James Brooks, Elaine de Kooning, Alfonso Ossorio, Charlotte Park, Perle Fine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jane Freilicher, Frank Bowling, Mary Heilmann, David Salle, Sean Scully and Jeffrey Gibson.

What I Got Wrong About Krasner and Pollock

ARTIST LIA STRASSER RECOUNTS HER EXPERIENCE AT THE POLLOCK-KRASNER HOUSE FOR HYPERALLERGIC

“Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its forthcoming exhibition Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous on Instagram, alongside a photograph of the artists by Hans Namuth. Seething, I looked to the comments for affirmation. I didn’t have to scroll for long. ‘Give her a solo show!’

“Months earlier, I had visited the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs, East Hampton, knowing far more about Jackson Pollock than I did Lee Krasner. I am a painter myself, and I had come to Springs in the wreck of yet another failed relationship … with a painter. I thought I already knew Krasner’s story. I thought her story was partly my own…”

-LIA STRASSER