Opening: March 25th, 6-8pm
Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce
its first solo show with Los Angeles-based
artist, Nathan Redwood. Redwood’s largescale
paintings tell a story of abstraction
versus representation while based on a
landscape composition. The remnants of
objects that define our everyday existence are
often the subjects of these paintings, but not
as we know them. They are treated as objects
that can be seen as surrogate figures; at the
same time they are basic objects and building
materials that mirror the artist “building” the
painting. These almost surreal landscapes
force the viewer to sort through the rubble and
uncover the mystery of these dark and
complex narratives.
Redwood’s worlds are created out of a surreal,
illusory visual vocabulary that
Nathan Redwood, Feelers, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 56 inches distorts the representational space, initially
disorienting the viewer. The palette and flatness of the brushstrokes evokes the stylized worlds
of graphic novels, while simultaneously referencing the artist’s art historical influences from the
Baroque, to the Surrealists to the Abstract Expressionists.
Nathan Redwood’s work is held in numerous private and public collections. He has exhibited
at the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, the Torrance Art Museum, California, at TENT
Centrum Beeldende Kunst (Holland), and the San Jose Museum of Art. His work has been
featured in, among others, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Art in America.
For further inquiries, please contact Laura Sumser at laura@kohngallery.com, or
323.658.8088.