Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to announce Robert Adams: Sea Stone & Other Pictures. The exhibition presents painted woodblocks inspired by Adams's memory of the prairie, on view for the first time, and black and white photographs from Sea Stone, the artist's most recent body of work, made near his home on the Oregon coast. Also featured are rare, large-format prints from 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph, Sea Stone, published by Fraenkel Gallery. A major retrospective, American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams, will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. from May 29 to October 2, 2022.
Painted woodblocks made during the tumultuous spring of 2020 are the most recent works in the show. The simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie. They will be exhibited alongside photographic views Adams made of the prairie in the 1970s and 1980s. Modest in size and painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, the wooden works are made from the scraps of an old bookcase, and cut with tools that belonged to Adams's father and grandfather. A catalogue of these works, Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory, will be published by Steidl this spring.
Image Credit: Robert Adams, Untitled, 2020
ink on wood, 11 x 16-7/8 x 3/4 inches
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Painted woodblocks made during the tumultuous spring of 2020 are the most recent works in the show. The simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie. They will be exhibited alongside photographic views Adams made of the prairie in the 1970s and 1980s. Modest in size and painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, the wooden works are made from the scraps of an old bookcase, and cut with tools that belonged to Adams's father and grandfather. A catalogue of these works, Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory, will be published by Steidl this spring.
Image Credit: Robert Adams, Untitled, 2020
ink on wood, 11 x 16-7/8 x 3/4 inches
Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to announce Robert Adams: Sea Stone & Other Pictures. The exhibition presents painted woodblocks inspired by Adams's memory of the prairie, on view for the first time, and black and white photographs from Sea Stone, the artist's most recent body of work, made near his home on the Oregon coast. Also featured are rare, large-format prints from 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph, Sea Stone, published by Fraenkel Gallery. A major retrospective, American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams, will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. from May 29 to October 2, 2022.
Painted woodblocks made during the tumultuous spring of 2020 are the most recent works in the show. The simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie. They will be exhibited alongside photographic views Adams made of the prairie in the 1970s and 1980s. Modest in size and painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, the wooden works are made from the scraps of an old bookcase, and cut with tools that belonged to Adams's father and grandfather. A catalogue of these works, Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory, will be published by Steidl this spring.
Image Credit: Robert Adams, Untitled, 2020
ink on wood, 11 x 16-7/8 x 3/4 inches
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Painted woodblocks made during the tumultuous spring of 2020 are the most recent works in the show. The simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie. They will be exhibited alongside photographic views Adams made of the prairie in the 1970s and 1980s. Modest in size and painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, the wooden works are made from the scraps of an old bookcase, and cut with tools that belonged to Adams's father and grandfather. A catalogue of these works, Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory, will be published by Steidl this spring.
Image Credit: Robert Adams, Untitled, 2020
ink on wood, 11 x 16-7/8 x 3/4 inches
show less
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