ROLAND REISS, ONSHORE FLOW
November 15, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Gallery C is pleased to present ONSHORE
FLOW, an exhibition of recent paintings by Roland Reiss. Since
the 1950s, Reiss has been an integral faction in the dialogue
of contemporary art. Among his many exhibition achievements,
Reiss has shown at Kassel Germany’s DOKUMENTA, been included
in the Whitney Biennial and has major artworks in countless museums
and prestigious private collections.
After three decades of creating
and mastering his trailblazing diorama tableau sculpture, Reiss
abandoned his signature approach and returned to painting.
He has been pursuing a new abstract painting for almost two
decades. Rather than emphasize composition to make a painting
that “works” (privileging engineered
results over the art experience), Reiss juxtaposes a wild array-of
non-objective forms and styles to create a compelling picture
that demands investigation over contemplation and appeals to
one’s retinal visual pleasure receptors without resorting
to imitative methods emphasizing harmony that are employed in
most painting today.