Elliott Puckette

American contemporary artist Elliott Puckette, is best known for her Minimalist compositions of wiry lines over monochromatic backgrounds. Born in 1967 in Lexington, KY, Elliott Puckette received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York in 1989. After graduating in 1989, Puckette she had her first Gallery exhibition with Kasmin Gallery, and since then her work has been regularly exhibited in America and around the world.

Puckette’s distinctive works and imagery evokes bodily forms and musical notation across the canvas surface, and her calligraphic style invites comparison to that of Brice Marden, Cy Twombly and Joan Miró. Unlike Miró’s automatic drawings, however, Puckette’s works are created with considerable deliberation and care. She also makes collages, tearing her drawings and reattaching them with glue, the imperfect bonded areas representing a loss of control.

Puckette's work has been reviewed in numerous publications, including Art in America, Artforum, Art + Auction, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Elle Décor and Vogue. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, the Fogg Museum, and the Huntsville Museum of Art.

Elliott Puckette currently lives and works in New York, NY.