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Email PageGlen Rubsamen: New Paintings 2006
December 1, 2006- January 13, 2007
Reception: December 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Glen Rubsamen
Robert Miller Gallery
524 W 26th StThe Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Glen Rubsamen. This is the artist’s first exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery.
In this exhibition Rubsamen has created large diptychs that depict shifting moments in a landscape, the beginning of the day and the end, or the creation of the world and its final moments. The paintings portray a battle between organic elements and manmade ones but the conflict seems to be one that is contextualized by artificial forces. Silhouettes of trees, lamp posts and buildings recur in Rubsamen’s paintings, which see the artist experimenting with the idea of photographic simulation whilst providing a shifting view point and an underlying sense of mystery and uncertainty. Rubsamen contravenes the existing treaties of the landscape genre, applying the strict rules of atmospheric classicism in alternative ways; shadow is used to create depth, and luminosity flatness.
Glen Rubsamen was born in Los Angeles, California and studied at U.C.L.A. where he received his MFA. He lives and works in Cologne, Germany. In recent years his work has been shown at the Kunstverein Munich, the Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg and the Taipei Biennial. He has exhibited with Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Germany; Witte de With, Rotterdam and De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland; Alexander and Bonin Gallery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; AnneMarie Verna and Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland; Galeria Pepe Cobo in Seville, Spain.
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