February 24 - March 28, 2022
From Laura Rathe Fine Art:
“Laura Rathe Fine Art announces Color Story, a multimedia duo exhibition featuring new work from Michael Laube and Paul Rousso. LRFA will be hosting the opening reception on Thursday, February 24th from 6-9pm at their River Oaks District gallery (4444 Westheimer Rd.) This exhibition presents new bodies of work that inventively redefine the use of color to transform our visual experience. Laube and Rousso, both working within three dimensions, use their distinct processes to dramatize painting’s materiality and amplify the visual force of color. Working on transparent glass, Laube carefully layers paint in a presentation that ultimately appears weightless in space, transforming as one walks past and ruling out any concreteness of form. In stark contrast, Rousso uses bold, hallucinatory color and whimsically massive scale to reimagine the disciplines of collage and sculpture and force the viewer to reconsider their visual experience. Together, the Laube and Rousso present a balance dance with color to both delight and challenge the eye.
Color Story will be on display through March 28th 2022.
FEATURED ARTISTS
PAUL ROUSSO | North Carolina artist, Paul Rousso, uses heat infusion on polystyrene to create hyper-realistic, hyper-sized, sculptures of everyday print objects. Advances in technology have enabled him to delve into the heat-tempered sculpting of the world’s ephemera in surprising ways. Through exaggerations of size, Rousso places familiar items as a crumpled-up ten- dollar bill or newspaper on the same relative plane as the viewer. Rousso’s art speaks to the transformation of physical objects and the effect of that on the viewer. He points out that, “all this stuff is going away,” and as the ink and paper era is drawing to a close, Rousso wants you to take a good long look. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, Houston, Miami, and Monaco.
MICHAEL LAUBE | Notable German painter & installation artist Michael Laube works on transparent acrylic glass in three dimensions that produce a spatial color effect similar to the artistic styles of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. His body of work transgresses the boundaries of traditional painting in his unique way, opening them up to different dimensions of space and time. Although the color in his acrylic glass objects and installations remains captured on the surface, it still seems dematerialized, disembodied, and never concretely localized. It becomes part of the surrounding space, woven into a dynamic, variable system of forces formed from light.
ABOUT LAURA RATHE FINE ART With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, gallery owner, Laura Rathe, started her career working as a private art dealer before establishing Laura Rathe Fine Art (LRFA) in 1998 in Houston, Texas. LRFA now operates out of two locations in Houston and a third gallery in Dallas on Dragon Street, the city’s premiere arts district destination. Since the gallery’s inception, LRFA has established itself as a leading contemporary art venue, offering an impressive range of exhibitions and programming to its patrons in both cities. LRFA represents a dynamic roster of established and mid-career contemporary artists working in a variety of media, many of whom have been acquired into world-renowned private, corporate, and museum collections. Various clientele include BBVA Compass, HKS Architects, Wells Fargo, W Hotels, UT Southwestern, Halliburton, and ConocoPhillips. LRFA also participates in a number of prominent art fairs including CONTEXT Art Miami, Art Southampton, Art Wynwood, Texas Contemporary, and the Dallas Art Fair.”
Reception: February 24, 2022 | 6–9 pm
Laura Rathe Fine Art - Houston (Westheimer Location)
4444 Westheimer Road
Houston, 77027 Texas
713.527.7700
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