July 25 - September 5, 2020
A solo exhibition featuring work by Kay Rosen.
From the gallery:
“202020…, a special project of murals and works on paper by Kay Rosen—the artist’s third presentation at the gallery.
Each of Kay Rosen’s paintings begins when she finds a striking coincidence in the structure of a word or phrase. Depending on how she presents these discoveries, her works can encourage wrestling with our most complex social and political dilemmas—spare, razor-sharp compositions that pack an intellectual and emotional punch. They epitomize the concept of concision: few words, working in overdrive, summoning stories others have parsed over volumes, decades, bales of newsprint. In this show, in 2020, Rosen uses a handful of basic visual devices (scale, stacking, omission, color, misalignment) to reflect a country mired in multiple ongoing crises, prompt a reckoning with the past, and remind us—even (and especially) those of us who are complicit in the ills we face—we are all charged with creating a better world for future generations.
202020… includes only four works (all of which were made by hand, with a brush or a pencil): a large mural, Black and Blue, faces the pencil drawing SOB; in another space, the wall painting Brown v. is installed across from Spring, an acrylic gouache on paper.
Kay Rosen, born in Corpus Christi, lives and works in Gary, Indiana and New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, Connecticut), Art Institute of Chicago, Aspen Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Drawing Center (New York), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand), M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) (which hosted her mid-career survey exhibition Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e), Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles), and University Art Museum (U.C. Santa Barbara). She has been included in shows at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Museum of Modern Art (New York), and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Among the museums that own her work are the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum, Collection Lambert (Avignon, France), Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Museum of Modern Art (New York), New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Progressive Corporation (Cleveland), and Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art (New York). Kay Rosen is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and is working on a commission for the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) to be unveiled in November of 2020.
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm, and by appointment.
Face mask required for entry. Reservations encouraged. Please call 512.215.4965 or email [email protected]. to schedule.
Maximum four visitors (or two parties) will be allowed in the gallery at one time. Hand sanitizer available at the door. Names and phone numbers will be requested upon entry for contact tracing.
Details can be found on our website at www.lorareynolds.com.”
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