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True To Form.
Byline: LESLIE CAMHI editor: Valerie Steiker
Artist Tomma Abts brings her luminous abstractions to the New Museum.
With small, otherworldly paintings, Tomma Abts is making big waves. The German-born artist, now based in London, won the Turner Prize in 2006 for canvases about the size of a laptop that hover between geometry and biomorphism, abstraction and representation. "They don't reward you at first glance," says Laura Hoptman, senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where the inaugural American survey of Abts's work opens this month. "They seem closed and obdurate. But their qualities are transcendent and magical."
Tall and regal, the intensely private 40-year-old painter grew up in the northern German city of Kiel, where her father, a gynecologist, made drawings in his off hours, and where she harbored "a secret desire," she recalls on the phone from London, to go to art school. Instead, she studied filmmaking in Berlin, creating experimental shorts--"Just lines and shapes," she says--which eventually led her back to painting. She moved ...
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