Roy Newell "The Private Myth"

Carolina Nitsch Project Room

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Roy Newell (1914 – 2006) was one of the original New York painters to emerge in the late 1940’s as abstract expressionists. Although largely absent from the historical records, he developed over fifty years one of the most sustained meditations on art making in post-war American art.
Working in almost complete isolation, he continually repainted over five decades a group of some 50 works. A number of these paintings he began in the 1950s and worked on until his death in 2006. Many of them were painted on small three dimensional supports only inches wide. These small box-like panels bear witness to a lifetime of work buried within their dense physical residue. Time collapses while viewing these works; days, weeks, months and years; thousands of hours compressed within a single object.
This is the first exhibition of Roy Newell’s work since his death. During his lifetime the total number of solo shows was less than ten. His work is in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum.

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from January 15, 2010 to February 20, 2010

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Roy Newell

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