Off the Grid

[Dave Monroe]

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, detail view of Pynchon, 2008, oil on linen, 66.5
x 28 inches.

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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Alexander Gray Associates, 2008
April 30 – June 14, 2008

In the four 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.

Gilbert-Rolfe has said that he "want[s] to reverse the relationship
between color and drawing in painting." In this new body of paintings,
he has continued this pursuit by almost completely abandoning
painterly gesture and instead using the grid to feature color in its
most exuberant forms. Using a technique that involves building layers
of glazes, Gilbert-Rolfe flaunts color, punching up the brightness of
his pinks and yellows by juxtaposing them with dark browns and blues.

http://www.alexandergray.com/

Off the Grid: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe at Alexander Gray Gallery
By Brent Burket | Features, Reviews | May 19, 2008

http://zine.artcal.net/2008/05/off-the-grid.php

BEAUTY by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

http://www.strikingdistance.com/xtra/XTra100/v2n3/jgr.html

Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy.   Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime.
    New York: Allworth, 2000.

http://www.allworth.com/Beauty_and_the_Contemporary_Sublime_p/1-58115-037-7.htm

Grids in early twentieth-century art

http://radicalart.info/AlgorithmicArt/grid/abstract/2D/index.html