Richard Bosman
dal 14/4/2003 al 23/5/2003
Segnalato da
14/4/2003
Richard Bosman
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
His first solo show in New York since 1994. Many of the paintings depict scenes form the Adirondacks, outdoor and indoor canoes, swimmers, and deer (alive and mounted.) Other paintings depict Rembrandt’s collection and Munch’s coat. Yet all connect in their ambience of northern latitudes.
The Elizabeth Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Richard Bosman. The Gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, 6th Floor, and is open Tuesday through Saturday 10-6. There will be a reception for the artist on Tuesday, April 15, from 6-8.
This is Richard Bosman’s first exhibition with Elizabeth Harris and his first solo show in New York since 1994. Many of the paintings depict scenes form the Adirondacks, outdoor and indoor canoes, swimmers, and deer (alive and mounted.) Other paintings depict Rembrandt’s collection and Munch’s coat. Yet all connect in their ambience of northern latitudes.
Carter Ratcliff writes in the catalogue essay: ‘Bosman’s gaze is not merely direct but fixated, fraught with incipience, and he is brilliant at conveying those qualities. His fictions convey truths about his way of looking, which bears the weight of all his other senses in a state of extreme of alertness and calm. The serenity of his intensity is what gives his pictures their distinctive power…we begin to see Bosman’s paintings only when we look past his ostensible subject to his real subject – the qualities of his vision. We can do this only if our looking is as inventive, as speculative as his…Earlier in his life as a painter, he was immersed in – wracked by – a sense of the contingent, of a world rich with surprises, most of them not threatening. Hence the quiet, watchful intensity of Bosmans’s presence. He has come to see that there is dramatic potential in everything from a familiar landscape to an out-of-the-way tourist site.’
Richard Bosman was born in Madras, India and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His first solo exhibition was in 1980. His work is in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Elizabeth Harris Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 6B
New York, New York 10011 USA
Tel : (212) 463-9666
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Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10am-6pm