July 27, 2019

Tumbleweeds: tangled_#208

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acrylic on magazine page, 11” x 14”
Posted by Mark Roth at 11:20 PM

July 25, 2019

Analog AR: willing

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collage, 10.5” x 8”
Posted by Mark Roth at 01:51 PM

July 24, 2019

Analog AR: weary

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collage, 11” x 8”
Posted by Mark Roth at 01:48 PM

July 23, 2019

Analog AR: swaddling

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collage, 12” x 9”
Posted by Mark Roth at 11:12 PM

July 22, 2019

Analog AR: palaces

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collage, 12” x 9”
Posted by Mark Roth at 11:08 PM

July 21, 2019

Analog AR: childhood

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collage, 12” x 9”
Posted by Mark Roth at 11:05 PM

July 20, 2019

Pop Stoppage Series: unreadiness_#336

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Soda bottle labels and acrylic on paper, 11” x 17”
Posted by Mark Roth at 01:19 PM

July 11, 2019

The Walk at Adjacent To Life

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Tinsquo’s curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents The Walk: Paintings by Ray Sumser.

Ray Sumser’s latest body of work is a rapturous experiential account of the California landscape. Painted in bursts in the artist’s Larkspur studio, The Walk consists of 47 oil paintings informed by the hills of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Mount Tamalpais State Park.

In these works, the artist furthers his exploration of the agency of the brushstroke while affirming his abiding interest in the gestural mark as a vessel of information.

In earlier iterations of these concerns, Sumser personified his brushstrokes into recognizable comic characters. Together these marks in the form of cartoon personas comprised teeming visual encyclopedias of the popular animation landscape. This fractal compositional strategy – where scrutiny of the minute yields expansive returns – subsequently evolved into more abstract assemblages of brushstrokes that evoked emergent body parts – many graced with eyes staring back at the viewer as if to draw equivalence between the seer and the seen.

In The Walk, Sumser vastly expands the carrying capacity of his brushstrokes.

Working in concert with one another to cohere into a legible macro vista, each stroke is independently redolent of the experience of moving through the landscape.

Sumser’s brushstrokes now operate as a transcription of an observer’s immersive experience, each reveling in the landscape’s particular vantages, character, form, fellow beings and sun-suffused atmosphere – all while simultaneously transmitting the charged moment of creation in the painter’s studio life.

The artist puts it this way:

“Perspective changes constantly. A landscape appears one way and is altogether different in closer relief. Never static, it moves with color and emotion, light and rhythm. The landscape accommodates and shapes the imagination with an abundance of information all pointing to beauty.”

The Walk is on view through August 16 at the Adjacent to Life pop-up gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City). There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, July 12, 7-9 pm.

Posted by Mark Roth at 10:22 PM

July 01, 2019

Saturn Devouring a Picture of Saturn Devouring His Children @ TBG

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Saturn Devouring a Picture of Saturn Devouring His Children, oil and acrylic on canvas, 20” x 20”

Featured in Tactical Stream #5: "Free" - an exhibit at TBG that considers the externalized, concealed costs supporting unsustainable resource extraction and privilege.

The Opening is Monday July 1, 7-9 pm. The exhibit runs through July 7 at TBG, 616 East 9th St. NYC.

Posted by Mark Roth at 01:00 AM

May and June's Acrylic Palettes

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Posted by Mark Roth at 12:55 AM