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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

Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020

Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020

Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020

Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020

Installation view, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens, 2020

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

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

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

  • 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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