ROLAND REISS – FLORAL PAINTINGS AND MINIATURES
2015-01-05Inspired by Edouard Manet’s late series of flower paintings, Roland Reiss began his new “floral paintings” in 2008 as a meditation on the impact of color on our consciousness. Here, Reiss deploys roses, lilies, and sunflowers as color delivery devices; they float in large-scale compositions layered with collaged stencils and cutouts that reference cityscapes, modernist painting, and forms found in his early sculptural tableaus. The artist recently described this major body of work as an effort to “put everything I have learned about painting into a painting.” This exhibition will include a selection of fifteen paintings from the past six years.
Mr. Reiss will also show five important “Miniatures” from his personal archive, including tableaus from The Dancing Lessons (1977), Gravity Observations (1982), and F/X (1991). These boxed Miniatures are a major legacy of the Southern California conceptual and vanguard art scene; and recently were also the focus of the solo exhibition, Roland Reiss: Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2011-2012).
Opposite – F/X: In Search Of Truth, 1990
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2015
Diane Rosenstein
831 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90038
