10/27/2026
Art That Stays With Me: October
The strongest art pairings can turn two walls into a conversation.
For our room at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2025, we placed two 1976 works from Ellsworth Kelly’s Colored Paper Images series, sourced through Susan Sheehan Gallery, opposite Elliott Puckette’s Untitled 2008. Kelly’s pieces have a strong graphic quality, while Puckette’s lines feel almost melodic. That contrast was deliberate. Each has its own presence, but seeing them in relation to one another makes both walls stronger.
Kelly created his Colored Paper Images using colored paper pulp, a process that brought texture and softer, less predictable edges to his typically precise geometric forms. Puckette approaches line very differently, carefully carving each one into layers of gesso and ink with a razor blade to create something that feels remarkably fluid and spontaneous.
I love how differently these artists approach shape and line, and how that difference becomes part of the experience of the room.
Contractor: SilverLining Inc.
Photographer: Marco Ricca Studio
