140. CAROL
RHODES
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INDUSTRIAL BELT
2006
Painting
Oil on board
71.50 x 81.00 cm
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CARPARK, CANAL
1994
Oil on board
51.40 x 44.60 cm
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TOWN
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2005
Oil on board
60 x 53.5 cm
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1959 in Edinburgh ( Scotland)
Nowadays:
She lives and works in Glasgow.
Studies:
The Glasgow School of Art (1977–82).
Themes and
style:
Working slowly, in oil on board, she
depicts 'functional' landscapes manipulated by human activity - industry,
landscaping, transport and quarrying. These terrains are distilled from
imagined, observed and photographed views, with high viewpoints suggesting
clarity and logic yet also unreality and disorientation. Recalling a range of
art-historical precedents from early Netherlandish pictures to Indian
miniatures, these paintings have an intensity and metaphoric richness that
belies their apparent reserve.
Techniques:
Is
developed in paintings
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions have been held at OHIO, Glasgow (2013),
Mummery + Schnelle, London (2009 and 2013), the Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art (2007) and Brent Sikkema, New York (2002). Group shows include
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London (2013);The Ground Around, Vilma Gold,
London (2010); Direkte Malerei, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2004); and British Art
Show 5 (2000). Her works are in major collections including Tate, Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven,
Connecticut.
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Representative
Galleries:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Mummery and Schnelle
In
her own words:
‘Chatever else it is
(and it has to be other things too), is always a sort of manifesto about what
art is now, and what it might become… imposing intention and function onto the
substance of paint is essential. It allows me into the real meaning of the painting,
whatever that may be’.
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