Altoon Sultan

Altoon Sultan's paintings and works on paper.

Why go

Sultan has spent over 45 years refining her practice, moving from early representation studies to a distinctive approach that treats farm equipment as readymade abstractions. Her work appears in major collections including the Met, MoMA, and Tate, and the Cultured critic notes her "commanding treatment of light" and ability to transform mechanical

What to expect

Thirteen small paintings in egg tempera on parchment-covered panels depicting isolated details of agricultural machines, with particular attention to how light falls across mechanical forms and creates visual drama through color relationships.

Things to know

• Born in Brooklyn in 1948; lives and works in rural Vermont for over 30 years
• First solo exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, New York, in 1979
• Works in egg tempera on calfskin parchment mounted on wood panels
• Her work is held in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tate Gallery London, and Walker
• Studied with Philip Pearlstein and Lois Dodd in the late 1960s and early 1970s
• Represented by Chris Sharp Gallery (Los Angeles), Hollybush Gardens (London), and ZERO... (Milan)