Winston Roeth: Colored Grids
Slewe Gallery is pleased to host the solo exhibition Colored Grids by American artist Winston Roeth (b. 1945, Chicago), which opened Saturday April 6. Roeth is known for his luminous paintings and the pictorial form of the grid. In 2020-2021 he had an overview exhibition, entitled Speed of Light, in Museum Wiesbaden. The exhibition at Slewe Gallery will contain some grid-based paintings and works on paper. It will be his first exhibition in the gallery and indeed in the Netherlands. You can listen to a conversation between Winston Roth and Robert van Altena on the exhibition here.
In addition, a special event has been organized on Sunday April 7 at 3 pm. John Snijders performs Morton Feldman's 75-minute piano piece For Bunita Marcus (1985).
Winston Roeth's entire body of work is characterized by his exploration of color. His work is embedded in the abstract geometric tradition. It is related to Agnes Martin's clear Grid Paintings, Josef Albers' Homage to the Square series and Donald Judd's research in color. Roeth's compositions are simple. Often a picture is divided into a geometric harmony of colored lines and planes on either aluminium or wooden panels or paper. In the case of works on paper for example, the white ground of the paper is broken up by shimmeringly luminous lines in a perfect balance of light, depth, and color. Subtle color effects occur on the crossings of the lines, which gives a strong expression. The works have overall compositions. There is no hierarchy. Most of the time they look like parts of the whole. It helps us to focus only on the luminosity of the colors. The works are exquisitely painted in several layers of velvety, pure pigment and polyurethane dispersion and reveal their secrets slowly: quiet combinations that play gentle tricks on the eye. In a world so accustomed to instant gratification Winston Roeth's works more than reward the unusual level of contemplation required.
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Slewe Gallery is pleased to host the solo exhibition Colored Grids by American artist Winston Roeth (b. 1945, Chicago), which opened Saturday April 6. Roeth is known for his luminous paintings and the pictorial form of the grid. In 2020-2021 he had an overview exhibition, entitled Speed of Light, in Museum Wiesbaden. The exhibition at Slewe Gallery will contain some grid-based paintings and works on paper. It will be his first exhibition in the gallery and indeed in the Netherlands. You can listen to a conversation between Winston Roth and Robert van Altena on the exhibition here.
In addition, a special event has been organized on Sunday April 7 at 3 pm. John Snijders performs Morton Feldman's 75-minute piano piece For Bunita Marcus (1985).
Winston Roeth's entire body of work is characterized by his exploration of color. His work is embedded in the abstract geometric tradition. It is related to Agnes Martin's clear Grid Paintings, Josef Albers' Homage to the Square series and Donald Judd's research in color. Roeth's compositions are simple. Often a picture is divided into a geometric harmony of colored lines and planes on either aluminium or wooden panels or paper. In the case of works on paper for example, the white ground of the paper is broken up by shimmeringly luminous lines in a perfect balance of light, depth, and color. Subtle color effects occur on the crossings of the lines, which gives a strong expression. The works have overall compositions. There is no hierarchy. Most of the time they look like parts of the whole. It helps us to focus only on the luminosity of the colors. The works are exquisitely painted in several layers of velvety, pure pigment and polyurethane dispersion and reveal their secrets slowly: quiet combinations that play gentle tricks on the eye. In a world so accustomed to instant gratification Winston Roeth's works more than reward the unusual level of contemplation required.
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