Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Exhibition
Alexander Gray Associates
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Alexander Gray Associates presents an exhibition of recent abstract paintings by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. Working as a critic and an artist since the late 1970s, Gilbert-Rolfe’s commitment to advancing theoretical questions surrounding beauty has been unwavering. A fierce proponent of painting and its historical roots, his new work squarely locates painting as a Modern and post-Modern medium that is ripe with possibilities and experimentation, metaphor and content.
In the five abstract paintings in this exhibition, Gilbert-Rolfe revisits the grid and the vertically oriented canvas. The grid, which possessed a more architectural look when it first appeared in his paintings in the late 1970s and early 80s, becomes a mesmerizing force in new paintings such as Pynchon. Covering the entire canvas with a meticulously rendered rectangular grid, Gilbert-Rolfe uses the grid in Pynchon to suggest the depth of a screen and the temporal duration associated with music. An empathetic relationship with the viewer’s body is encouraged by all of the paintings’ verticality, which also shifts their compositional foci to the center, where a crevice runs down the center of each painting.
[Image: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe "Thought in a Garden" (2008) Oil on linen 86" x 36" x 1-1/4" ]
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Schedule
from April 30, 2008 to June 14, 2008