Pynchon, the work of art
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Thu May 1 15:58:25 CDT 2008
In the five abstract paintings in this exhibition, Gilbert-Rolfe revisits the grid and the vertically oriented canvas. The grid, which possessed a more architectural look when it first appeared in his paintings in the late 1970s and early 80s, becomes a mesmerizing force in new paintings such as Pynchon. Covering the entire canvas with a meticulously rendered rectangular grid, Gilbert-Rolfe uses the grid in Pynchon to suggest the depth of a screen and the temporal duration associated with music. An empathetic relationship with the viewer's body is encouraged by all of the paintings' verticality, which also shifts their compositional foci to the center, where a crevice runs down the center of each painting.
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