Dotty Attie

Public is pleased to present 40 Years, the first UK solo exhibition and major retrospective of works by Dotty Attie, whose practice rigorously engages the grid as a formal and conceptual tool, masterfully rendering her small-scale drawings and canvases to create cadenced arrangements that disrupt the accepted art historical canon. A pioneering figure of the downtown art scene in 1970s New York, Attie was a co-founder of the feminist collective A.I.R. gallery alongside members Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell, and Judith Bernstein, among others. Spanning across three floors of the gallery’s multistory space, the exhibition offers a close look at Attie's extensive career and her influence in both contemporary art and feminist practice. Attie has been represented by P·P·O·W since 1988.

40 Years is organized by Nicole Estilo Kaiser, Director, Public Gallery, and Ella Blanchon, Director, P·P·O·W.

Dotty Attie (b. 1938, Pennsauken, NJ, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Solo exhibitions include What Surprised Them Most, P·P·O·W, New York (2023); Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (2013); Pierre and Lady Holland: A Suite of Drawings by Dotty Attie, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton (1999); Dotty Attie, Paintings and Drawings, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh (1989); The New Museum, New York (1983); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (1980); A.I.R. Gallery, New York (1980); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1979). She has participated in group exhibitions at Grey Art Museum, New York University, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. Permanent collections include the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. She was awarded a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976; National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976 and 1983; and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2013.