Davis Rhodes
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, 2012, Société, Berlin
Davis Rhodes describes painting as a particular form of agreement, a relation that is always being made and unmade. For Rhodes, painting is a commitment on a material level—and to a mode of relation. Whether working with gloss paper, enamel, satin, or foam board, he displays a keen interest in “un-grounding” the grammar of the painted surface. Adopting a visual language of minimalism and post-minimalism, Rhodes’ process foregrounds the fragile materiality of the planar surface which he subjects to interventions like rolling, crushing, and folding to yield dynamic compositions of subtle striations and creases. In a culture that is hysterical for transparency, for the consumption of identity, Rhodes is instead interested in opacity, alterity, intimacy, a kind of perceptual zero point—to allow what cannot be painted to be present and threaten what is visible.
Davis Rhodes (b. 1983, Victoria B.C.) is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. His solo shows include Office Baroque, Brussels; Société, Berlin; ACME and Sister, Los Angeles and Casey Kaplan, New York. Rhodes participated in group shows including Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville; White Flag Projects, St. Louis; Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin; MuZee Oostende, Ostende; LOG, Bergamo; and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York.
Ύλη[matter]HYLE
Athens, 2020
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Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020
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Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020
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Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020
Office Baroque
Brussels, 2017
Installation view, Office Baroque, Brussels, 2017
Installation view, Office Baroque, Brussels, 2017
Installation view, Office Baroque, Brussels, 2017
Installation view, Office Baroque, Brussels, 2017
Installation view, Office Baroque, Brussels, 2017
Untitled ‘12
Société, Berlin, 2012
Untitled ‘12
Société, Berlin 2012
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin, 2012
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin, 2012
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin, 2012
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin, 2012
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin, 2012
Installation view, Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin, 2012
Davis Rhodes
Solo exhibitions
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2020
Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens
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2017
Office Baroque, Brussels
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2015
Untitled ‘15, Société, Berlin
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2012
Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin
Untitled ‘12, Team Gallery, New York
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2010
Office Baroque, Antwerp
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2009
Untitled ‘09, Team Gallery, New York
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2008
Gallery C, Team Gallery, New York
White Year, ACME and Sister, Los Angeles
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2007
Davis Rhodes Gallery III, ACME and Sister, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
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2017
Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation, Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville
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2013
39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
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2012
39 Great Jones, New York
Trojan Horses, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
Ghosts Before Breakfast, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
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2011
A Hole is to Dig, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Group Exhibition, Curated by Clayton Deutsch, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami Beach
Gruppenausstellung 2, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin
Shapes, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
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2010
It‘s All American, Curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Haley Mellon, New Jersey Moca, New Jersey
Public Private Paintings, MuZee Oostende, Ostende
ANTIANTIANTI – Shapes, Contexts and Rules, Curated by Nicolas Chardon, LOG, Bergamo
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2009
Besides, With, Against and Yet : Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture, The Kitchen, New York
Einarson, Rhodes, Whitney, Team Gallery, New York
The Practice of Joy Before Death; It just would not be a party without you, Scaramouche c/o Fruit & Flower Deli, New York
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2008
New Images / Unisex New Images / Unisex, Curated by Blake Rayne, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Artists of the Gallery, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
The Art of the Real, Curated by Bob Nickas, Vanmoerkerke Art Collection, Oostende
Inaugural Group Show, Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Defining a Moment: 25 New York Artists, Curated by Simon Watson, House of Campari, New York
Cube Passerby, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Passerby, New York
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2007
Jeremy Chance & Tamar Halpern & Davis Rhodes, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Gimme A Little Sign, Sister, Los Angeles
First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York