NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin presents a selection of paintings by Anthe Zacharias (b. 1934, Albania) viewable online and by appointment at 514 West 28th Street. Featuring seven paintings executed between 1958 and 1966, the presentation highlights Zacharias’s arrival at her celebrated exploration of color and gestural forms in large-scale compositions that evolve from her early Abstract Expressionist painting style. Realized at a pivotal juncture in Zacharias’s more than 60-year practice, the works foreground the artist’s synthesis of painting elements of line, color, light and movement that were rooted in observations from nature.

After a number of critically-acclaimed New York exhibitions in the 1960s and 1970s, much of Zacharias’s work remains rarely seen; though she never stopped painting, the artist took a hiatus from exhibiting after 1974 and only reintroduced her work to public view 40 years later. She arrived at her most recognizable style in the early 1960s, while working and exhibiting in New York. Her studio in an old sea captain’s residence at 66 Pearl Street, steps away from the Coenties Slip studios of Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin and others, offered Zacharias the space and freedom to experiment with her compositions. At an increasingly large scale, she developed a distinctive visual language in which her colors and forms breathe across the canvas.

Born in Albania in 1934, Zacharias was raised in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, where she immigrated with her parents at a young age. After receiving her MFA from UC Berkeley in 1957, she began exhibiting in New York group exhibitions alongside Mark Di Suvero and Louise Bourgeois before staging critically-acclaimed solo exhibitions in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2006, she contributed to Mark Di Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Peace Tower at the Whitney Biennial.