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RHONDA GATES


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RHONDA GATES

Distillation of Space

November 6 - January 9, 2021
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In Distillation of Space, Rhonda Gates’ paintings build on the legacy of landscape painting and human’s psychological distancing from the natural world. She utilizes architectural-based grids and geometric shapes to organize and present her subject matter – the poetry of air and light, flora and fauna – suggestive how people choose to be spectators, viewing nature at an arm’s length through windows and devices, instead of seeing themselves as integral participants in nature. 

Gates’ exhibit invites you to explore personal connections to fleeting but everyday moments in nature. With vigorous brushwork and thick paint, the nuanced gradations engender a sensuous, tangible quality to space, distance and atmosphere. Graphite lead is incorporated to depict the presence of features that punctuate the atmospheric spaces while fleeting effects of light evolve within an architectural framework of geometric shapes. 

The carefully constructed paintings present you with visual structures that reveal unexpected aspects of the landscape and provide a sense of mass to atmosphere. Subtle shifts in color, combined with the physical properties of paint, propitiate the tension between surface and space. Distillation of Space provides an intimate exposure and poignant experience to contemporary landscape painting.

selected images

RHONDA GATES - Apparition, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 36 x 30 in.
RHONDA GATES - Be Still, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 30 x 40 in.
RHONDA GATES - Birch Trees and Snow, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 24 x 20 in.
RHONDA GATES - Boreal Fauna, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 16 in.
RHONDA GATES - Boreal Summer, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Catching Snowflakes, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Early Snow, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 16 x 20 in.
RHONDA GATES - Embracing The Tree Nymphs, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 18 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Flight, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 30 x 36 in.
RHONDA GATES - Hay Bales, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - In the Shadow of Trees, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 16 in.
RHONDA GATES - Last Snow, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 16 x 20 in.
RHONDA GATES - Passage, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Rainfall, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 36 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Reflections on a Fall Lake, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 16 x 20 in.
RHONDA GATES - Return Flight, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - River's Edge, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 16 in.
RHONDA GATES - Road Cut and Fog, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 40 x 30 in.
RHONDA GATES - Spring Graces, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 24 x 30 in.
RHONDA GATES - Summer Place Reflections, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Summers End, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 18 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - The Cherry Thief, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Waiting to Pass, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 36 x 36 in.
RHONDA GATES - Wetlands, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 18 x 24 in.
RHONDA GATES - Will I See You Again?, 2020, oil / graphite on panel, 20 x 24 in.

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