When asked late in her life how hard it had been to live and paint in the shadow of her internationally-acclaimed husband, Elaine De Kooning replied, “Actually, I live in his light.” From June 25th through July 9th, Birnam Wood Galleries will present a special exhibition, Elaine De Kooning: Out of the Shadow, a retrospective covering four decades of the artist’s work. The artist, who died in 1989, has continued to steadily emerge from the shadow of her teacher and husband, Willem de Kooning. ...
