Howardena Pindell: New Works

Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of new spray dot paintings by Howardena Pindell.

Howardena Pindell’s spray dot paintings are among her most iconic works. The artist first created these sensuous paintings in New York in the early 1970s. Using various hole punchers and tools, she punched into discarded cardstock, manila folders and heavy watercolour paper, the result of which she used as templates, spraying paint through the perforations across large-scale canvases to create fluctuating veils of colour.

In the past few years, for the first time in decades, Pindell has revisited this technique with renewed creativity and excitement, integrating geometric shapes and experimenting with different sizes of dots across these fields of colour. Conceived for the gallery in London, this exhibition marks the first solo presentation of these new works, featuring a monumental diptych.