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Gladstone Gallery : R. H. Quaytman - Glenstone Museum

Arts and Entertainment

September 23, 2022

From: Gladstone Gallery

An exhibition featuring two recent series of paintings by R.H. Quaytman will open in Glenstone’s Gallery. Since 2001, Quaytman’s artistic output has been modeled on the structure of a book. Each body of work is a “chapter” in an ongoing investigation of the history of image-making. Quaytman combines painted and silk-screened images on wood panels to create densely layered compositions that shift between abstraction and figuration.

Organized and designed with the artist, the presentation will include works from two chapters in Glenstone’s collection. Morning: Chapter 30, 2016 is a panoramic painting responding to a fraught moment in US political history. The Sun Does Not Move: Chapter 35, 2019 explores Quaytman’s relationship to ?ód?, Poland, the city from which the artist’s grandfather emigrated, and to models of abstraction developed in Eastern Europe under communism.