Rodney Graham unveils a new series of paintings in Lisson Gallery online-only exhibition

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Rodney Graham unveils a new series of paintings in Lisson Gallery online-only exhibition
Rodney Graham, Untitled, 2020. Oil and sand on canvas, walnut frame, 216.7 x 253.7 x 6.2 cm. 85 1/4 x 99 7/8 x 2 3/8 in © Rodney Graham; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.



NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery is presenting Painting Problems, an exhibition by Rodney Graham, unveiling a new series of paintings made especially for the occasion. This marks the first presentation on Lisson Gallery’s new Online Exhibitions platform, a selection of which will be featured simultaneously across Frieze Art Fair’s new Viewing Room.

In this new series of works, Graham continues to play as a modernist painter. Drawing on the vocabulary of 20th century art, he splices together different styles, from Braque and Picasso, to Rodchenko and Fontana.

The works on view evolved out of the paintings created by Graham for his lightbox, Vacuuming the Gallery, 1949 (2018). Each of Graham's lightboxes involve a meticulously curated stage-set, with every prop, costume or backdrop carefully designed and produced. This four-panelled work, exhibited at Lisson Gallery during Frieze London 2018, depicts a pipe-smoking mid-century art dealer vacuuming his gallery, perhaps before an opening. Surrounding the dealer in his faux-gallery are a series of paintings that make up his new exhibition. These paintings were created by Graham to represent the abstract paintings that would have been radical, and represented by such an art dealer at the time, post-World War II, with Graham even commissioning individual frames appropriate for the era. The language of these paintings was inspired by a single drawing from 1940 by Rodchenko, painted on canvas with layered gesso and sand, referencing this use by modernist artists from Picasso to Dubuffet, but layering the paint to create new textures.

Previous and recent painting series by Graham are also referenced throughout, including Possible Abstractions, based on a 1950s cartoon from a men’s magazine lampooning modern art; the Psychomania Variations, variants on a prop modernist painting in one of the sets of a 1970s British biker movie; the Inverted Drip Paintings that evolved from The Gifted Amateur lightbox, picturing an amateur painter inspired by a Morris Louis exhibition in 1962; and a series of recent polka dot relief paintings. Sampling aspects of these paintings, Graham has created a new style, with various new modernist compositions.

The exhibition is on view from 6 – 20 May.










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