Maro Gorky: The Thread of Colour
23 May - 7 June, Gallery 1
Admission: Free Entry. Pre-booking is not required.Located on the Ground Floor in Gallery 1.
Presented in collaboration with Long & Ryle, The Thread of Colour is a celebration of the life and work of Armenian-American artist Maro Gorky (b. New York 1943).
The exhibition features a selection of important oil paintings spanning her career as an artist from the 1980s to the present day. Subject matter includes Gorky’s family, the Tuscan home she has lived in with her sculptor husband Matthew Spender since the 1960s, and landscapes from the Sienese countryside and beyond.
It includes two large-scale landscapes, Autumn Vines (2025) and Spring Vines (2025). These ambitious works, only recently completed with the last strokes being added just in time for the show, demonstrate that Maro Gorky, in her eighties, remains as powerful and prolific a painter as she was in her twenties.
The exhibition runs until 12 May and will reopen on 23 May until 8 June.
An accompanying exhibition Maps of Feelings opens at Long & Ryle until 16 May, and features a selection of Gorky’s works on paper, an important element of her artistic practice.
