January 14 — February 26, 2022
New York: 21st Street
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.
— 17th-century folk poem
Gladstone is pleased to announce the New York premiere of Enclosure, a film and installation by Rachel Rose originally co-commissioned by Luma Foundation and Park Avenue Armory. Unfolding against an agrarian community on the verge of obsolescence, Enclosure addresses the catastrophic psycho-social and ecological disturbances triggered by the advent of capitalism and industrialization. This monumental project also includes a new publication and a suite of gravures by the artist. For this installation, the gallery will present a selection of paintings on loan from the Yale Center for British Art that inspired Rose’s vision for this expansive body of work.
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About
Rachel Rose (b. 1986, New York) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Last Day, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland (2025);The Last Day, Science Gallery, London (2024); Good Morning Midnight, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); The Last Day, LUMA Arles, Arles, France (2023); Rachel Rose, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2023); Cave of Time, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium (2022); Lake Valley, Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio (2022); Pond Society, Shanghai, China (2020); Rachel Rose, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France (2020); Rachel Rose, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2019); and Enclosure, LUMA Foundation, Arles, Switzerland (2019). Group exhibitions include: Haus der Kunst, Munich (2025); Museé d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada (2025); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2024); ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark (2023); Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2023); Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland (2023); 3rd Jeju Biennale, Korea (2022); 9th Beijing Biennale, China (2022); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2022); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota (2022); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2021); and Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (2021). Rose’s work is held in major public collections including: the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Julia Stoschek Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; LUMA Foundation; Musée d’Art Moderne; Ishikawa Foundation; Tate Modern; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Dallas Museum of Art. She was the recipient of the Frieze Artist Award in 2015 and Illy Present Future Prize in 2014.
