Exhibition Dates: August 4 – September 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 4 from 6 – 9 pm (in conjunction with “White Linen Night”)
Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm
Contact Info: 504.522.1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present “Quiver,” an exhibition of glass and mixed-media by Rob Wynne. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from August 4 – September 15, 2012. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance, Saturday, August 4 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with “White Linen Night.”
Quiver, 2012. Poured and mirrored glass, 23 x 35 inches.
Rob Wynne’s debut exhibition with the gallery features recent poured mirrored glass texts and sculpted glass compositions, as well as earlier framed, embroidered canvases.
The artist has a long-standing fascination with narrative. Utilizing words that resonate – overheard phrases and poetic quotations – he creates works that give a landscape to language. He embraces the imperfection in glass making, resulting in organic letterforms that he selects to construct expressions such as “Always Sometimes” and “Connoisseur of Chaos.” Printed canvases of enlarged details of 18th century Meissen figurines feature enigmatic and anachronistic text embroidered in contrasting colors. The exhibition also features glass bead and thread compositions including a whirling constellation of silvered glass discs based on the spiral images in a Cocteau drawing, “The Vortex of Narcissus.” Wynne explains, “I like a spectacle, I like an environment. I like to feel, when I’m deep into my work and really connected with it, that it’s transportive in some way. It’s not about looking at just one thing. It’s a swirl that takes you somewhere else.”
Rob Wynne has had numerous solo gallery exhibitions, including JGM Galerie, Paris; Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva; and Holly Solomon Gallery, New York. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the P.S. 1 Institute for Contemporary Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; and the McNary Art Museum, TX. His work is included in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.
Rob Wynne received his B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives and works in New York.