Davis Rhodes

Installation view, Untitled ‘12, 2012, Société, Berlin — 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

Office Baroque

Brussels, 2017

Untitled ‘12

Société, Berlin 2012

Untitled ‘12

Société, Berlin 2012

Solo exhibitions

2020

Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens
2017

Office Baroque, Brussels
2015

Untitled ‘15, Société, Berlin
2012

Untitled ‘12, Société, Berlin
Untitled ‘12, Team Gallery, New York
2010

Office Baroque, Antwerp
2009

Untitled ‘09, Team Gallery, New York
2008

Gallery C, Team Gallery, New York
White Year, ACME and Sister, Los Angeles
2007

Davis Rhodes Gallery III, ACME and Sister, Los Angeles

Group exhibitions

2017

Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation, Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville
2013

39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2012

39 Great Jones, New York
Trojan Horses, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
Ghosts Before Breakfast, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
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
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
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
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
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

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