Galerie Obadia
Cloître Saint-Merri
Paris 4ème
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Vernissage / Opening:
Saturday, September 4
The show runs through October 23, 2021
Pictured: Anemone Bouquet (2019), Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 183 x 183 cm.
Please enjoy this Zoom conversation with Jenelle Porter recorder on May 13, 2021.
Robert Kushner: I ❤ Matisse runs through June 19, 2021
at DC Moore Gallery.
Please join me at DC Moore Gallery
I ❤ MATISSE
May 6 - June 19, 2021
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Open House with Robert Kushner at DC Moore Gallery:
Thursday, May 6 from 4-6pm
Saturday, May 8 from 3-5pm
Saturday, May 15 from 3-5pm
Please make an appointment by clicking here.
Artist Talk: Jenelle Porter in Conversation with Robert Kushner
May 13 @ 5pm EDT via Zoom
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Catalogue available with an essay by Peter Eleey entitled “The Matisse Line”
Robert Kushner, Tray of Oranges and Taisho Kimono, 2021, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Robert Kushner, Seven Seraphim, 2020, Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 182,9 x 182,9 cm (72 x 72 in.)
I am very pleased to be joining these artists and the Galerie Nathalie Obadia in the online viewing rooms at the FIAC this year!
MARTIN BARRÉ
VALÉRIE BELIN
CAROLE BENZAKEN
ROSSON CROW
FABRICE HYBER
ROBERT KUSHNER
BENOÎT MAIRE
LAURE PROUVOST
FIONA RAE
BRENNA YOUNGBLOOD
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VIP PREVIEW: MARCH 2 & 3 | PUBLIC DAYS: MARCH 4 - 7, 2021
Robert Kushner, August, 2020, 72 x 72 inches, oil, acrylic on canvas
Since the beginning of quarantine waaay back in March, I have worked hard in the studio as my mental and spiritual salvation. At first the paintings were a continuation of their pre covid predecessors, Then a large bouquet of flowers intervened. Subsequently the works bounced back and forth between compositions of one or two huge isolated flowers and a complex, diverse cluster, a community of varied flowers. it has been a fascinating pendulum. This most recent painting, August, is in some ways a summation of summer itself, distilling the ideas of the various bouquet paintings into this one canvas. Sunflower, cosmos, zinnias, odd wild things whose names I don’t really know. It has finally occurred to me that my community of friends which has been relegated to isolation, has reformed itself in these bouquets. These are my friends, not literally represented, but in communion, brushing shoulders, celebrating their upward ascent and the abundance of summer.
Work is going well in the studio. I am working each day. Not thinking so much about relevance to the exterior world. Rather, I am following a well developed mental fantasy. I work thinking more about being an artist in the 1930s. I am a Danish (or maybe Finnish, or maybe Swedish) artist who studied at Matisse's academy in Paris (1907-1911) during the heyday of the Parisian avant garde and of Fauvism itself. But right after that, I had to go back home to run the family business. But from then till now, over a century, in the dark attic of that old, sturdy family house, I have a studio in the attic. Only one small window.
Robert Kushner painting Matisse Table, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches.
Red Room, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
One Red Anemone, 2020. Oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on canvas, 72 x 36 inches
During the dark, cold gray winters, instead of going in the Vilhelm Hammershøi direction of silvery light and cool gray tonality, I summon in my mind the blinding light of the South of France. I remember being a student of the Master, watching him daily in awe, as I am now squeezing the entire world of color onto my palette and then letting it sing on the canvas. In my attic studio, I am carefree, wild, experimental, intoxicated by color harmonies and the sun-drenched tranquility and protection of being in the South of France. Or is it the South of California? The Mediterranean plants, the fruit, the vases, the fabrics... and that is what keeps going on in my head.
Robert Kushner with Seven Seraphim, 2019. Oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on canvas, 72 x 72 inches.
Robert Kushner's dog Foxy with Five Red Anemones, 2020. Oil, acrylic, and palladium leaf on canvas, 72 x 72 inches.
You may contact DC Moore Gallery about any of these artworks. Also, check out more portfolios of my artwork on the DC Moore Gallery website.
Robert Kushner, Orient Express, 1982, acrylic and mixed fabric on cotton, 100 x 130 inches
Now on view: ‘Pattern & Decoration Continuum: Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, and Robert Kushner’ at the DC Moore Gallery booth at Art Basel Miami Beach. The fair is open to the public through Sunday, December 8.
Please stop in to Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery in Osaka, Japan to see ‘Robert Kushner - New Paintings’ on view now through December 25th.
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