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Spine: Chapter 20
2011
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Installation view
R.H. Quaytman’s paintings are structured
as an ongoing book, each exhibition another chapter, each painting,
part of a larger context. This ongoing method deploys optical
abstraction, silkscreened photographs, occasionally diamond
dust, and hand-painted trompe l’oeil elements. All paintings
come in one of seven sizes. Using these specific and repeating
techniques, an historical, documentary and formal narrative
evolves exploring the many contexts in which painting is placed,
be it in disrupting groups, isolating singularity or hidden
storage. For the 2010 Whitney Biennial Quaytman simultaneously
engaged the museums iconic architecture, a well-known painting
in its collection and another artist in Quaytman’s milieu.
For SFMOMA, opening on October 22 “I Love - The Eyelid
Clicks / I See Cold Poetry, Chapter 18,” examines the
relation of language to the image. The artist chose two poems
by the San Francisco poet Jack Spicer as a way to structure
a selection of anonymous photographs in the museums collection. |
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Spine: Chapter 20
2011
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Installation view |
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Spine: Chapter 20
2011
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Installation view |
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54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations
2011
Venice Biennale, Italy
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54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations
2011
Venice Biennale, Italy
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Whitney Biennial 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Installation view |
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Whitney Biennial 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Installation view |
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iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity
2008
Vilma Gold, London
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iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity
2008
Vilma Gold, London
Installation view |
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