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january 27, 2023 - Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian announces solo presentation of recent paintings and works on paper by Rick Lowe at Frieze Los Angeles
Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in #friezelosangeles2023, at the fair's new venue of Santa Monica Airport, with a solo presentation of recent paintings and works on paper by Rick Lowe. The booth features Rotation (Revolution) (2023), a monumental 12-by-27-foot multi-panel painting, alongside other works that explore line, color, and space with reference to the impact of rural and urban development.
Throughout these works, Lowe emphasizes the links between the hands-on, communal aspects of his practice and its conceptual and visual elements, combining interpretations of his transformative public projects with abstract investigations of medium and form. In Rotation (Revolution), he addresses ideas of movement through a complex maplike pattern of bold but lightly tinted lines against a variegated ground of black, green, and brown. The intensity of the work's graphic component in conjunction with its broad, irregular fields of color suggests the quasi-organic sprawl of a huge municipality. The design is among many of Lowe's that draw on the photographs of dominoes games that he took while working on Project Row Houses (1993–2018) in Houston's Third Ward. Resolution (Settlement) (2023) also revisits the neighborhood to examine the ways in which gentrification has impacted the community; here, the lines contain blocks of red, pink, and green that conjoin with darker areas and road-like collaged strips to enhance the metropolitan feel.
In Untitled (9:23 am) (2022), a lush patchwork of verdant greens is marked by glimmers of orange and red, suggesting a rural landscape interrupted by areas of activity, while Green Divide (2023) shifts the scene to Providence Canyon State Park in Georgia, near Lowe's Alabama hometown, where local farmers constructed trenches after World War II and introduced kudzu plants in an attempt to curb soil erosion. The work's composition, which features a dark green band cutting into a central field of pale oranges and blues, echoes the new species' incursion. Among the works on paper is Social Practice Class Domino Alphabet Studies #4 (2022) a multicolored composition made with fragments of notes from Lowe's social practice seminar at the University of Houston.
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