DOMENICK TURTURRO | UNTITLED

Turturro is known for his all-over gestural paintings, not unlike the works of Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock or Arshile Gorky, in which the artist uses a varied color palette to experiment with the figure and ground, creating fields of wild yet controlled arrangements. The boundary between foreground and background is often blurred due to his signature combination of application and erasure in a balanced treatment of negative and positive forms, creating a push-pull effect that gives the work overall dynamic movement. Allan Stone maintained a longtime association as patron and friend to Turturro, and exhibited the artist numerous times at his eponymous gallery from the the late ’60s to mid-’80s. Turturro’s work is in several notable collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Witherspoon Museum, North Carolina; and Greenville County Museum, South Carolina.