Greg Rose: Paradise Redux
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
July 11 – October 5, 2003
Paradise, 2003
Oil and alkyd paints on canvas on wood panel, 60 x 96 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Photo: Gene Ogami
The exhibition Greg Rose: Paradise Redux brings together five large-scale paintings in which Rose finds a balance between contemporary art and traditional Asian aesthetics. The resulting paintings are both soothing and unnerving. The exhibition Greg Rose: Paradise Redux is on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art where Greg Rose is an artist in residence.
Los Angeles-based artist Greg Rose makes landscape paintings that combine the flat, psychedelic-colored style of southern California painting with traditional Asian landscape painting. In Greg Rose’s works, viewers will see elements of ikebana, Japanese flower arranging, as well as mysterious Chinese landscape elements. His intensified phosphorescent hues and disquieting color combinations complicate any easy reading of his images. Rose’s paintings are places of reinvention, cultural blending, and promise.
Greg Rose: Paradise Redux is the artist’s first museum exhibition. It features five monumental paintings and a Chinese Ming Dynasty bench.
KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
4420 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64111
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