Roe Ethridge

Roe Ethridge

April 18 June 16, 2018

Brussels

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present its fourth exhibition by artist Roe Ethridge, whose photographs deconstruct visual syntax by consciously reworking tropes of both stock imagery and fine art. These new works serve as an extended meditation on genres and styles associated with the traditions of Dutch painting, particularly the still life, domestic scene, and portraiture. Ethridge reflects on these models as foundational to "visual culture" in exposing the image as a material construction that simultaneously produces and is produced by complex relationships: artist and subject, nature and technology, and the personal and the social. Through this lens, he connects disparate figures, including mushroom spores, holiday tchotchkes, and fashion models, via subtle formal cues-such as color, reoccurring motif, or compositional correspondence-that denaturalize the photograph's claims to objectivity.

Installation

Installation View, Roe Ethridge, at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2018

Work

Roe Ethridge

Inflatable Alien, 2017
Dye sublimation print on aluminum
49 12 x 33 inches (125.7 x 83.8 cm)
50 78 x 34 38 x 1 58 inches (129 x 87.3 x 4 cm) framed

About

Roe Ethridge (b. 1969, Miami, Florida) lives and works in New York. His photographs have appeared in solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow; and Le Consortium, Dijon, France. Ethridge has also been included in group exhibitions at notable institutions including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Barbican Center, London; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

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