Sundaram Tagore Gallery is pleased to present a wide-ranging exhibition of paintings by Robert Natkin (1930–2010), one of the foremost American abstract colorist painters of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, whose work is in the The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among many other notable institutions.

It is the first time a solo exhibition of work by Robert Natkin has been mounted in Singapore. The exhibition, which brings together canvases spanning five decades, is a rare opportunity to explore the range and depth of this prolific artist’s creative output. The exhibition was organized in conjunction with the artist’s estate, which Sundaram Tagore Gallery represents worldwide.

Robert Natkin was a Chicago-born artist associated with the Color Field and Lyrical Abstraction painters. His hues are shamelessly seductive, whether deployed in vertical columns, spread in gauzy veils, or strikingly textured. On his canvases, paint creates a seemingly infinite space in which iconographic details appear to hover or float through illusory depths.

Robert Natkin: A better place travels to Singapore after debuting at Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York. The exhibition will subsequently travel to Sundaram Tagore Gallery London, a multilevel space in the heart of the city currently under renovation, which is slated to open in the spring.