Leah Rosenberg @ TARTINE June 12, 2008

LEAH ROSENBERG

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June 12th - July 17th
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 12th from 9-11pm


Curated by Brianna Toth

Leah Rosenberg’s paintings are time and process-based works that combine elements of layering, systems of accrual and color. By allowing and encouraging the accrual of paint to act in a three dimensional manner, the medium begins to take on its own sculptural shape. These layers of paint function as a way to mark the passage of time, as well as the material’s own accumulation.

Rosenberg’s selection of color is based on personal systems are derived by the text from a book that she is reading, a telephone call home to Saskatchewan or inspired by the colors of the clothing worn by people who visit her studio throughout that day. Each piece is a concentration of the many “paintings.” These paintings are not executed in the traditional manner of finished artworks, but rather “paintings” as a “gerund”, a series of consecutively painted actions. In actuality each work is a painting, on a painting, on a painting that conceals as much as it reveals. Each painting is the result of a ritualized routine, which leads to the next work.

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