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.