Tuesday, April 23, 2019

The Rausch Report: plus Lesley Vance, Folkert de Jong, and Otis Jones.

Neo Rausch drawings in a beautiful survey at The Drawing Center. Drawing Center link 

The show is called From the Floor, referring to Rausch throwing his ideas, via drawing, to the floor for his assistant to pick up, presumably so he can retain the immersed state of creation.
Along with groups of drawings (categorized by the curator Brett Littman into characters, or epic landscapes, and so on) are large oil works on paper. The works and the install are gorgeous.






































Two gorgeous paintings on paper in the back room. It is said Rausch paints from the lower right corner to the top left. 







From ink to oil: LA-based painter Lesley Vance in her first exhibition at Bortolami. Gallery Link





Detail. These works in their intense perfection remind me of Tomma Abst.
Upstairs at Straus you will find Folkert de Jong's figurative sculpture. Gallery Link 
The placement of this boxer was quite beautiful in the high-ceilinged room.

An amalgam of textures, castings and castoffs.
Mixed from elixirs and potions, the artist's transformational tools.

First floor at Straus, Dallas-based Otis Jones, showing new works from 2019 with work from the 1990s.

Early. 1990s
1992

2019

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