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Email PageJeremy Gilbert-Rolfe 2006
May 5, 2006- June 17, 2006
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
526 W 26th StGray Kapernekas Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. Associated with the generation of post-Minimalist painters described as the New Abstractionists in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Gilbert-Rolfe has enjoyed a distinguished career as a painter, critic, theorist and educator. Gilbert-Rolfe’s exhibition at Gray Kapernekas Gallery includes four large paintings made since 2000. Two of the works, The Way Birds Use Gravity (2002) and The Chameleon and the Wraith (2003-2004) are notable for their gestural brushstrokes and dynamic palette of pinks and reds. In both works, foreground and background fold into each other, and a sense of figurative movement blurs from geometric arrangements. A second pair of paintings, Impassivity with Space for Movement (2001) and Step (2004-2005), are, at first glance, color fields marked by complicated edges, heightening the viewer’s awareness of the edge and the frame. “A painting should be something that happens while one is looking at it,” says Gilbert-Rolfe, and in this sense, his paintings are as much about the viewer’s physical presence and interaction as they are about the image on the canvas. Gilbert-Rolfe’s critical writings on painting and abstraction have been influential for the past few decades, informing discourse around beauty and the role of painting in a post-Modern context. “I was asked recently what my writing about art and associated matters has to do with my painting,” says Gilbert-Rolfe, “and I said that since the 1980s I’ve been writing about the same forces that my painting tends to be about: beauty rather than brutality, attractiveness rather than argument. Brutality and argument tend to be contemporary signs for the serious, and it was in part in response to that banality that I wrote a book about beauty which identified it with the frivolous.”
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is the author of numerous essays and books, including Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime (Allworth Press, 2000) and Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts 1986–1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). His work is included in prestigious public collections, including the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. His work was recently included in the highly-regarded exhibition Extreme Abstraaction at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; 100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston for Independent Curators International; and in 2004 his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Los Angeles. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in painting, and was presented the 1998 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association. He teaches in the graduate program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Art Reviews of Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe 2006
| The New York Sun May 25, 2006 | David Cohen | "...Although Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, like Mr. Marioni, has emerged in the wake of minimalism, he represents a different tradition of painterly abstraction, connecting to older models (Kandinsky, for instance), while also seeming more au courant...." |
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