Greg Rose: Swimming Holes

Swimming Holes

Greg Rose will show five new paintings along with a group of works on paper that continue his exploration into the human desire to order the "natural" world into an aesthetic experience. While earlier bodies of work focused on ikebana and other idealized constructions of nature, the new body of work focuses on swimming holes that Rose frequented as a boy in the Carmel Valley. These locations have become idealized and distorted due to time and memory, and the paintings further distort the locations with the manipulation of scale and space. The resulting works function as ideal fictions from the distant past.

Greg Rose has recently exhibited at Acme, Los Angeles, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, and the Kemper Museum, Kansas City.