From the Studio: Anne Sherwood Pundyk Presents The Architecture of Concealment at The Parrot Club, Brooklyn, NY
THE BLANC Studio Artist Anne Sherwood Pundyk presents her solo exhibition, The Architecture of Concealment, at The Parrot Club in Brooklyn this fall. On view from October 23 through November 21, 2026, the exhibition is curated by the gallery's founder, Dylan Greif.
Pundyk's work is rooted in generational trauma that was never openly addressed. Rather than depicting that history directly, she works with the patterns of secrecy that surrounded it: watchfulness, coded communication, the instinct to cover. She uses materials from the domestic setting where that silence took shape: utility canvas, hardware store paint, a sewing machine and scissors. She builds her abstract paintings through the mechanics of concealment itself, by cropping, stitching, staining and burying marks under layers of paint. Yet in the same gesture that hides, she tests what it means to choose to reveal.
"Her paintings don't decode a single hidden message," Greif says. "They put the craft
and cost of hiding on display, where radiant color pushes against geometric restraint
and concealment becomes something you can see and dwell inside.”
The exhibition moves through four bodies of work. Paintings on stitched canvas mounted on wood panel set up the central tension between showing and hiding. Two large paintings, News Reel and Austin, edge toward rupture with sweeping arcs of brilliant color breaking against grids and hard-edged blocks, on unstretched canvases stitched together with dangling threads. Collages built from the unused scraps of her other work return what was once hidden from view. Two small ink drawings, Skate and Crown, find the artist at her most unguarded: spare marks and delicate geometry on bare white paper.
The setting reinforces the work. The Parrot Club is an apartment, converted into a community gallery and the show has a family connection: Greif is Pundyk's cousin, and the opening will bring together family, friends and art-goers.
We warmly congratulate Anne on this exhibition. We encourage visitors in New York to join the opening reception on Friday, October 23, from 6:00 to 10:30 pm, which includes a conversation between the artist and curator at 7:30 pm.
The Architecture of Concealment is on view at The Parrot Club, 165 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, from October 23 to November 21, 2026. Gallery hours are by appointment. For details, follow @parrotclubparrotclub on Instagram.
About the Artist
Anne Sherwood Pundyk is a painter and writer based in Manhattan, where she was born, and in Mattituck on the North Fork of Long Island. Her work brings together abstract painting, textiles and storytelling. She has recently explored the impact of generational trauma on her work through independent research at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO. Her earliest influence was her grandmother, Mary Sherwood Wright Jones, an illustrator for My Weekly Reader. She later studied with Sam Gilliam in Washington DC, earned her BA in fine art from Pomona College and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she worked with Pat Adams.
Pundyk's work is held in the private collections of Cy Twombly, Katie Couric and Anthony Grant. It is also in the institutional collections of Barclays Bank, The New School, Franklin Furnace, Denison University and the Luciano Benetton Foundation among others. She has gallery representation in Brooklyn, NY; Columbus, OH; and Kensington, MD. Pundyk has exhibited at Guild Hall, Pierogi Gallery, SPRING/BREAK, Southampton Arts Center, Susan Eley Fine Art and Queens College Art Center, where she twice served as artist-in-residence.
Her work has has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Spiel and artcritical. As a writer, she has contributed criticism to numerous art publications and published The Garden, an artist's book with Space Sisters Press.
