Robert Ryman "Large-Small, Thick-Thin, Light Reflecting, Light Absorbing"
The Pace Gallery (32 E 57th St)
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The artist will transform the gallery space with nearly thirty paintings, measuring between 10" to 30" inches squared, and featuring a wide range of experimentation in materials and supports.
For more than five decades, Robert Ryman has been engaged in an ongoing experiment with painting. He constantly seeks to modify his approach, resisting the comfort of tendency and maintaining the freshness of an unchartered territory. From each experience Ryman gleans the variables for a revised proposition and the impetus to propel him towards his next move.
This encyclopedic exhibition presents a vast range of facility with the material properties of paint on a variety of supports used both individually and in conjunction with one another, including wood, MDF board, aluminum, and stretched cotton. One-third of the works on view are painted on Tyvek, an extremely thin industrial material composed of spunbonded Olefin. Although Tyvek has the appearance of paper, the material is deceivingly strong. The artist approaches the new works with paints possessing varying properties, such as acrylic varnish, enamel, and epoxy, in addition to graphite and ink. Penciled grids float in and out of focus, sometimes obscured by paint, sometimes left uncovered.
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from February 19, 2010 to March 27, 2010