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SUMMARY:Gideon Rubin: The Sun Also Rises
DESCRIPTION:RYAN LEE is pleased to announce The Sun Also Rises\, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by the London-based painter\, Gideon Rubin. Rubin is known for painting faceless figures and ambiguous landscapes that are familiar yet fugitive. Using vintage and found photographs as the basis for his paintings\, Rubin reimagines the context surrounding these memory fragments\, drawing the viewer into recognizable scenes that refuse resolution and leave the narrative and its protagonists deliberately nebulous. \nThrough the application and erasure of paint\, Rubin says\, “details are lost\, but a new identity appears.” Rubin considers himself a portrait painter\, but his paintings are less about an individual sitter than his perception of the world. He turns his attention to pops of strategically placed color and points of contact: “I focus on the edges\, where colors\, shapes and tones touch each other\,” he says. In works such as Blue Jeans (2021) and White Shirt (2021) Rubin’s lone figures seem lost in moments of contemplation\, but the absence of facial features obscures access to definitive meaning. Rubin confesses that he enjoys cultivating this deliberate incompleteness; the resulting images are painterly snapshots of moments in time that appear both commonplace and particular. \nAll of the paintings in The Sun Also Rises were produced during the height of the pandemic in London\, and the landscape images in particular provided Rubin with “a comforting sense of escapism\,” he said. In Boat (2020) and Untitled (2021) Rubin’s solitary figures seem to stare out at the nature that surrounds them—the blue of a body of water\, and wild forest greenery\, respectively. Though each of these landscapes is abstracted—into loose layers of blue and energetic bursts of green—and neither reveals itself as a specific location\, they are meditations on the role of place in Rubin’s own practice. “Over the past year or two\, we all had to reflect on our relationship towards our environment – the landscape\, or lack thereof. This relationship\, between experience and the memory of it\, between painting a boat and going out on a boat\, became the backdrop to a very productive artistic isolation.” \n  Save  
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LOCATION:RYAN LEE\, 515 W 26th St\, 3rd Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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