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Mineo Mizuno, 2007
The colors, too, seem to come from another place....
"The colors, too, seem to come from another place,
as rich and vibrant as they are: the world of worn signs, perhaps.." - Richard Roth
1. Richard Roth, 1982
2. Mineo Mizuno, 2008, via Samuel Freeman Gallery...
as rich and vibrant as they are: the world of worn signs, perhaps.." - Richard Roth
1. Richard Roth, 1982
2. Mineo Mizuno, 2008, via Samuel Freeman Gallery...
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Richard Roth’s pictorial compositions seem extrapolated from memories of the world, fragments of something seen: side furniture and architectural ornament, packaging, even masks and the contours of the body. They are geometric, nearly minimal, but always quiver with this sense of being sourced elsewhere.
The colors, too, seem to come from another place, as rich and vibrant as they are: the world of worn signs, perhaps. This sense of the work having traveled is odd because of the pristine beauty of their execution. Roth has always been a wonderful painter and he exhibits an elegant touch in his new paintings with Flashe acrylic, a paint of brilliant color that dries matte to an effect that is more like gouache.
Roth describes the paintings as “aphoristic,” like quips or snatches of conversation that expand in the mind. Their objecthood and their internal compositional variety across a regulated format suggest that Roth sees this body of work as connected to his collecting and curatorial activities of the last decade, as though he’s curating a “collection” of object/paintings that meet a certain set of criteria."
- Stephen Westfall, 2007 - from the introduction to the Richard Roth exhibition at Reynolds Gallery, November 2007
via here....
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