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Black Creek

Amy Talluto
  • $85.00

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I work exclusively with landscape imagery in my paintings because I love the eccentricity of nature. I seek out natural subjects that emanate a strong unique feeling or personification. This large oil-on-canvas painting depicts an area of Black Creek Preserve in Upstate New York and shows the incredible hemlock forest that is protected there. When the piney needles of the trees fall into the creek, the tannins turn the water black ... hence the name of the preserve. The painting is also part of a larger body of paintings that I made inspired by Southern author, Eudora Welty's, short story, Moon Lake. The story describes the night sky as "pale as a green grape, transparent as grape flesh over each tree" ... "the grape of the air." The mood and color palette of the paintings in the group respond to the lush, dense, deep woods portrayals in the story and present images of nature that seem filtered through an emerald glass. Each painting sits on the boundary of night's blackness and daytime's sunlight, distilled through a prism of green.

The lush, green grove portrayed here is a particularly striking section of Black Creek Preserve, a 130-acre woodland tract in Esopus, upstate New York. Tipping slenderly toward the center of the frame are the shaded trunks of eastern hemlock trees. When their needles shed into the creek below, their tannins turn the water black—giving the preserve its name and the creek an otherworldly countenance. The creek’s inky surface also invites rich reflections from the surrounding flora, adding to its mysterious aura. Talluto masterfully captures the enigmatic, inverted world on the water’s surface, and the dappled light cutting through the canopy to caress a patch of leaves, flirt with a knoll, or commune with a fallen tree ... Read more on the blog! 

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Museo Portfolio Rag

Edition Structure:
8"x10" | edition of 10
11"x14" | edition of 100
16"x20" | edition of 20
20"x24" | edition of 10

Artist - Amy Talluto

Amy Talluto

Amy Talluto was born in New Orleans, LA and earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2018 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Painting and was an Artforum Critics Pick for her solo exhibition at Black & White Gallery (Brooklyn). She has recently shown her work at Jeff Bailey Gallery, The Berkshire Botanical Garden, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, Geoffrey Young Gallery and Wave Hill Gardens. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Mabel Residency (RI), Saltonstall Foundation (NY), Ucross Foundation (WY), Provincetown Dune Shacks & the Byrdcliffe Colony (NY). She currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Hurley, NY

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